TY - RPRT
TI - A 1:8.7 Scale Water Tunnel Verification & Validation of an Axial Flow Water Turbine
AU - Fontaine, A
AU - Straka, W
AU - Meyer, R
AU - Jonson, M
AB - As interest in waterpower technologies has increased over the last few years, there has been a growing need for a public database of measured data for these devices. This would provide a basic understanding of the technology and means to validate analytic and numerical models. Through collaboration between Sandia National Laboratories, Penn State University Applied Research Laboratory, and University of California, Davis, a new marine hydrokinetic turbine rotor was designed, fabricated at 1:8.7-scale, and experimentally tested to provide an open platform and dataset for further study and development. The water tunnel test of this three-bladed, horizontal-axis rotor recorded power production, blade loading, near-wake characterization, cavitation effects, and noise generation. This report documents the small-scale model test in detail and provides a brief discussion of the rotor design and an initial look at the results with comparison against low-order modeling tools. Detailed geometry and experimental measurements are released to Sandia National Laboratories as a data report addendum.
DA - 2013/08//
PY - 2013
SP - 122
PB - Pennsylvania State University
SN - TR 13-002 
UR - https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1171589
LA - English
KW - Marine Energy
KW - Riverine
KW - Tidal
ER -