TY - CONF TI - Proceedings of the 6th Oxford Tidal Energy Workshop AU - University of Oxford T2 - 6th Oxford Tidal Energy Workshop (OTE 2018) AB - Monday 26th MarchSession 1: Array Modelling (1) 11:10 Validation of an LES-ALM to simulate arrays of tidal turbines Pablo Ouro (Cardiff University) 4 11:35 Arrays of non-uniform blockage and resistance Paul Bonar (University of Edinburgh) 6 12:00 Field observations of rotor thrust and bypass-acceleration at a tidal fence Merel Verbeek (TU Delft) 8 Poster Presentations (1)12:25 An English Channel model for the optimisation of tidal turbines in the Alderney Race Zoe Goss (Imperial College) 10 12:30 Tidal asymmetry and its effect on capacity factor of tidal resource Ahmad Firdaus (University of Oxford) 12 12:35 Acquiring flow and measurement data on a floating tidal energy converter Thomas Lake (Swansea University) 14 Session 2: Wake characteristics and turbulence (1) 14:00 Investigating the fundamental nature of unsteady aerofoil response to gusts Amanda Smyth (University of Cambridge) 16 14:25 Unsteady hydrodynamics of full-scale tidal turbines Gabriel Scarlett (University of Edinburgh) 18 14:50 Unsteady loading in an array due to simulated turbulent onset flow Hannah Mullings (University of Manchester) 20 Poster Presentations (2) 15:15 Dynamic modelling of floating tidal energy converters Jack Hughes (Swansea University) 22 15:20 Hydroelastic modelling of composite tidal turbine blades Federico Zilic de Arcos (University of Oxford) 24 15:25 Coupling of WATTES and OpenFOAM codes for wake modelling behind close-packed contra-rotating vertical-axis tidal rotors Ruiwen Zhao (University of Edinburgh) 26 Session 3: Array Modelling (2) 16:00 Characterising array performance for different operating points Tim Stallard (University of Manchester) 2816:25 A basin-scale comparison of constrained BEM and actuator disc models Lei Chen (University of Oxford) 30 16:50 The effects of uncertain bottom friction on estimates of tidal current power Monika Kreitmair (University of Edinburgh) 32 27th March 2018Session 4: Turbine Design and Performance (1) 9:25 An experimental evaluation of blockage corrections for cross-flow current turbines Hannah Ross (University of Washington) 34 9:50 A reduced order model to predict flows around cross-flow turbines Esteban Ferrer (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) 36 10:15 Size matters: Investigation into “full scale” and geometry scaling of the helical Gorlov marine turbines Esther Quaintmere (University of Hull) 38 Session 5: Turbine design and performance (2) 11:10 Modelling tidal stream turbine and array interaction Matt Edmunds (Swansea University) 40 11:35 Influence of support structures on tidal turbine power output Subhash Muchala (University of Oxford) 42 12:00 CFD analysis of tidal range turbine draft tube wakes Ross Gwenter (Swansea University) 44 Poster Presentations (3) 12:25 Implementation of a tidal barrage boundary condition in DG-ADCIRC Tulio Marcondes Moreira (University of Oxford) 46 12:30 Misalignment of currents and waves at tidal energy sites Matt Lewis (Bangor University) 48 12:35 Optimisation of tidal turbine blades for low velocity flow Job Encarnacion (University of Strathclyde) 50 Session 6: Wake characteristics and turbulence (2) 14:00 Measuring marine turbulence kinetic energy with 4- and 5-beam ADCPs Michael Togneri (Swansea University) 52 14:25 Recent developments to compute turbines interactions in an ambient turbulent flow Camille Choma Bex (Université du Havre) 54 DA - 2018/03// PY - 2018 SP - 59 UR - https://eng.ox.ac.uk/efm/research/tidal-energy/tidal-energy-workshops/ LA - English KW - Marine Energy KW - Tidal ER -