Proceedings of the Korea Committee for Ocean Resources and Engineering Conference (한국해양공학회:학술대회논문집)
- 2003.10a
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- Pages.81-86
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- 2003
Analysis of Impulse Turbine for Wave Energy Conversion Using CFD Method
수치해석을 이용한 파력발전용 임펄스 터어빈의 성능해석
- Hyun, Beom-Soo (Korea Maritime University) ;
- Moon, Jae-Seung (Korea Maritime University)
- Published : 2003.10.24
Abstract
This paper deals with the performance analysis and design of impulse turbine for OWC type wave energy plant. Numerical analysis was performed using a commercially-available software FLUENT. This parametric study includes the variation of several important parameters such as the number and shape of blades, hub ratio and tip clearance. Since parametric study at various flow coefficients requires considerable amount of computing tim, two-dimensional analysis was employed to find out optimum principal particulars in rather simple manner. Full three-dimensional calculation was also performed for several test cases to confirm the validity of two-dimensional approach. Up to the present stage, tentative result is well demonstrating the usefulness of 2-D analysis.