TY - RPRT
TI - Reference Model 2: ‘Rev 0’ Rotor Design
AU - Barone, M
AU - Griffith, T
AU - Berg, J
AB - The preliminary design for a three-bladed cross-flow rotor for a refrence marine hydrokinetic turbine is presented. A rotor performance design code is described, along with modification to the code to allow prediction of blade support strut drag as well as interference between two counter-rotating rotors. The rotor is designed to operate in a referencere site corresponding to a riverine environment. Basic rotor performance and rigid-body loads calculations are performed to size the rotor elements and select the operating speed range. The preliminary design is verified with a simple finite element model that provides esetimates of bending stresses during operation. A concept for joining the blades and support struts is developed and analyzed with a separate finite elements ananlysis. Rotor mass, production costs, and annual energy capture are estimated in order to allow calculations of system cost-of-energy.
DA - 2011/11//
PY - 2011
SP - 1
EP - 30
PB - Sandia National Laboratories (SNL)
SN - SAN2011-9306
UR - https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1126471
DO - 10.2172/1126471
LA - English
KY - Current
KY - Riverine
KY - Modeling
KY - Extreme Events
KY - Site Characterization
KY - Performance
KY - Structural
KY - Deployment
KY - Cost Assessment
ER -