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| Togneri, Michael; Pinon, Grégory; Carlier, Clement; Choma Bex, Camille; Masters, Ian. |
| Turbulence is a crucial flow phenomenon for tidal energy converters (TECs), as it influences both the peak loads they experience and their fatigue life. To best mitigate its effects we must understand both turbulence itself and how it induces loads on TECs. To that end, this paper presents the results of blade element momentum theory (BEMT) simulations of flume-scale TEC models subjected to synthetic turbulent flows. Synthetic turbulence methods produce three-dimensional flowfields from limited data, without solving the equations governing fluid motion. These flowfields are non-physical, but match key statistical properties of real turbulence and are much quicker and computationally cheaper to produce. This study employs two synthetic turbulence generation... |
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Palavras-chave: BEMT; SEM; Sandia; Tidal turbines; Turbulence; Simulation. |
| Ano: 2020 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00501/61248/64828.pdf |
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| Choma Bex, Camille; Pinon, Gregory; Slama, Myriam; Gaston, Benoist; Germain, Gregory; Rivoalen, Elie. |
| This paper presents possible techniques for modelling ambient turbulence in the Lagrangian Vortex Method formalism. Due to the fact that regular Synthetic Eddy Method (SEM) already presented in previous studies is not divergence free by definition; improvements were necessary to develop a similar SEM method with such a divergence free property. The recent improvements formulated by R. Poletto give the way to such a possibility. This new Divergence Free Synthetic Eddy Method (DFSEM) is presented here in comparison with the regular SEM. Obtained numerical velocity fields are compared in terms of convergence properties, Power Spectral Density and also Taylor macro-scale. Finally, turbine wakes are computed with both the recent Poletto's DFSEM and the regular... |
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| Ano: 2020 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00652/76443/77531.pdf |
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