@inproceedings{db633a760a4d47fcbcc1509cd0b7a392,
title = "Surface curvature effects on performance of a laboratory scale tidal turbine",
abstract = "This paper presents numerical study of the surface curvature effects on the performance of a 3D lab scale tidal turbine (E387) using Eppler 387 airfoil. The prescribed surface curvature distribution blade design method is used to remove the surface curvature discontinuity of E387 turbine and the redesigned turbine is denoted as A7 turbine. The two turbines are analysed using in-house BEM code and CFD RANS. The performance of E3787 turbine obtained from BEM and RANS match well with the experimental results from reported literature. The A7 turbine has mildly better performance at low tip speed ratio (1-4.25) at which the blade is partly or fully stalled.",
keywords = "BEM, CIRCLE, Power coefficient, Surface curvature effect, Tidal turbine",
author = "Kaiming Ai and Eldad Avital and Xiang Shen and Abdus Samad and Nithya Venkatesan",
note = "Funding Information: The first author would like to thank the Queen Mary China Scholarship Council Co-funded Scholarships. This research utilised Queen Mary{\textquoteright}s Apocrita HPC facility, supported by QMUL Research-IT. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.438045 Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 Newswood Limited. . All rights reserved.; 2018 World Congress on Engineering, WCE 2018 ; Conference date: 04-07-2018 Through 06-07-2018",
year = "2018",
language = "English",
series = "Lecture Notes in Engineering and Computer Science",
publisher = "Newswood Limited",
pages = "571--575",
editor = "Korsunsky, {A. M.} and Hukins, {David WL} and Andrew Hunter and Len Gelman and Ao, {S. I.}",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the World Congress on Engineering 2018, WCE 2018",
address = "Hong Kong",
}
