A review on the technologies, design considerations and numerical models of tidal current turbines

M Nachtane, M Tarfaoui, I Goda, M Rouway - Renewable Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Tidal current turbine is one of the innovative and emerging technologies of marine
renewable energies because it offers constant and predictable energy source that can be …

Comparison between CFD simulations and experiments for predicting the far wake of horizontal axis tidal turbines

ME Harrison, WMJ Batten, LE Myers, AS Bahaj - IET Renewable Power …, 2010 - IET
The actuator disc is a useful method for parameterising a tidal stream turbine in a solution of
the Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes equations. An actuator disc is a region where similar …

Turbulent flow and loading on a tidal stream turbine by LES and RANS

I Afgan, J McNaughton, S Rolfo, DD Apsley… - International Journal of …, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper presents results from numerical simulations of a 3-bladed horizontal axis tidal
stream turbine. Initially, Reynolds Averaged Navier Stokes (RANS) k–ω Shear Stress …

A large-eddy simulation study of wake propagation and power production in an array of tidal-current turbines

MJ Churchfield, Y Li… - … Transactions of the …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
This paper presents our initial work in performing large-eddy simulations of tidal turbine
array flows. First, a horizontally periodic precursor simulation is performed to create turbulent …

Accuracy of the actuator disc-RANS approach for predicting the performance and wake of tidal turbines

WMJ Batten, ME Harrison… - … Transactions of the …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The actuator disc-RANS model has widely been used in wind and tidal energy to predict the
wake of a horizontal axis turbine. The model is appropriate where large-scale effects of the …

Modelling tidal current turbine wakes using a coupled RANS-BEMT approach as a tool for analysing power capture of arrays of turbines

SR Turnock, AB Phillips, J Banks, R Nicholls-Lee - Ocean Engineering, 2011 - Elsevier
An improved method is developed to couple an inner domain solution of the blade element
momentum theory with an outer domain solution of the Reynolds averaged Navier Stokes …

Effects of 3-D channel blockage and turbulent wake mixing on the limit of power extraction by tidal turbines

T Nishino, RHJ Willden - International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, 2012 - Elsevier
Three-dimensional incompressible Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS)
computations are performed for water flow past an actuator disk model (representing a tidal …

Review of tidal turbine wake modelling methods: State of the art

E Jump, A Macleod, T Wills - International Marine Energy …, 2020 - marineenergyjournal.org
Abstract Enabling Future Arrays in Tidal (EnFAIT) is an EU Horizon 2020 flagship tidal
energy project. It aims to demonstrate the development, operation and decommissioning of …

[HTML][HTML] Realistic wave conditions and their influence on quantifying the tidal stream energy resource

MJ Lewis, SP Neill, MR Hashemi, M Reza - Applied Energy, 2014 - Elsevier
When selecting suitable sites for tidal stream energy arrays a wide range of factors must be
considered, from the magnitude of the tidal stream resource, to realistic oceanographic …

A simple sliding‐mesh interface procedure and its application to the CFD simulation of a tidal‐stream turbine

J McNaughton, I Afgan, DD Apsley… - … journal for numerical …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
An effective way of using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to simulate flow about a
rotating device—for example, a wind or marine turbine—is to embed a rotating region of …