TY - RPRT TI - Reference Model #1 – Tidal Energy: Resource AU - Polagye, B AB - Reference Model #1 is a tidal turbine operating in a narrow, tidal channel. The site is a generalized version of Tacoma Narrows, Puget Sound, Washington. The resource is a mixed, mainly semidiurnal tidal regime with two ebbs and floods each day of unequal strength (i.e., a diurnal inequality in which a strong ebb/flood exchange is followed by a weak exchange). The diurnal inequalities provide extended windows of weak currents for device installation and maintenance activities relative to a purely semidiurnal tidal regime, though at the expense of reduced generation potential for equivalent peak currents. DA - 2011/12// PY - 2011 SP - 1 EP - 10 PB - University of Washington SN - UW‐2011‐02 LA - English KY - Current KY - Tidal KY - Performance KY - Deployment ER -