Numerical Study of Conventional and Biomimetic Marine Current Turbines in Tandem by Using Openfoam®

• Main Authors: Chu, Yung Jeh, Chong, Wen Tong
• Format: Article
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2018
• Subjects: TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/22186/; https://doi.org/10.1017/jmech.2017.46

The increasing demands on renewable energy nowadays caused the development of marine current turbine industry. In order to improve the current design of marine current turbines, studies were conducted to analyse their hydrodynamic performances during operation. Since most of the time marine current...