Validation of the dynamic load characteristics on a Tidal Stream Turbine when subjected to wave and current interaction
| Autor: | Benoît Gaurier, Catherine Lloyd, Grégory Germain, Cameron Johnstone, Timothy O'Doherty, Allan Mason-Jones, Rodrigo Martinez, Matthew Allmark, Stephanie Ordonez-Sanchez |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Experimental validation
Environmental Engineering VM 020209 energy Ocean Engineering Thrust 02 engineering and technology Computational fluid dynamics Wave-current interaction 7. Clean energy 01 natural sciences Turbine Dynamic load testing 010305 fluids & plasmas Physics::Fluid Dynamics Marine energy 0103 physical sciences 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Regular waves Velocity gradient business.industry Mechanics Structural load Tidal stream turbine Bending moment business Tidal power Geology |
| Zdroj: | Ocean Engineering (0029-8018) (Elsevier BV), 2021-02, Vol. 222, P. 108360 (24p.) |
| ISSN: | 0029-8018 |
| Popis: | A comparison of a tidal turbine's performance and structural loads is conducted using lab-scale numerical models and experimental testing under multiple current-only and wave-current conditions at the IFREMER wave-current flume. Experimental testing, used to validate CFD models, was accomplished using a 0.9 m diameter, 3-bladed tidal turbine and had a blockage ratio of 8% while the turbine was submerged. Initial investigations analysed the performance and loads on the turbine under uniform and profiled current-only conditions. The presence of a profiled velocity gradient was found to have a negligible effect on the average performance characteristics; however, transient thrust, torque and out of plane bending moment loads experienced much greater variations. These load fluctuations were further increased with increasing levels of shear in the velocity profile, while peaks in the turbine loads coincided with its rotational frequency. The addition of regular, Stokes 2nd Order Theory waves added to the complexity of the flow conditions experienced by the turbine. The effect on the average performance characteristics were negligible while the total turbine thrust and torque fluctuations increased by 35 times that of the current-only cases. Peaks in the loads aligned with the wave surface elevation, indicating the importance of transient analyses of dynamic loads. |
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