TY - JOUR
TI - Effects of rotor solidity on the performance of impulse turbine for OWC wave energy converter
AU - Liu, Z
AU - Zhao, H
AU - Cui, Y
T2 - China Ocean Engineering
AB - Impulse turbine, working as a typical self-rectifying turbine, is recently utilized for the oscillating water column (OWC) wave energy converters, which can rotate in the same direction under the bi-directional air flows. A numerical model established in Fluent is validated by the corresponding experimental results. The flow fields, pressure distribution and dimensionless evaluating coefficients can be calculated and analyzed. Effects of the rotor solidity varying with the change of blade number are investigated and the suitable solidity value is recommended for different flow coefficients.
DA - 2015/10//
PY - 2015
PB - Springer
VL - 29
IS - 5
SP - 663–672
UR - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13344-015-0047-6
DO - 10.1007/s13344-015-0047-6
LA - English
KW - Wave
KW - Oscillating Water Column
KW - Modeling
KW - Performance
KW - Structural
ER -