Tuning tidal turbines in-concert to maximise farm efficiency

DOI10.1017/S0022112010006191zbMath1225.76071OpenAlexW2151516709MaRDI QIDQ3097795

Ross Vennell

Publication date: 10 November 2011

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112010006191

zbMATH Keywords

shallow water flowscoastal engineeringtopographic effects

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Flow control and optimization for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B75)

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Uses Software

• fminsearch

Cites Work

• Tuning turbines in a tidal channel
• A free-surface and blockage correction for tidal turbines
• Convergence Properties of the Nelder--Mead Simplex Method in Low Dimensions
• The power potential of tidal currents in channels
• The efficiency of a turbine in a tidal channel

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