Alexander Day

TL;DR: The International Towing Tank Conference specialist committee on Hydrodynamic modelling of Marine Renewable Energy Devices (ITTC) as mentioned in this paper reviewed key issues in the physical and numerical modelling of marine renewable energy systems, including wave energy devices, current turbines, and offshore wind turbines.

TL;DR: Predictions of added resistance and the effective power of ships were made for varying barnacle fouling conditions, and the results indicate that the effect of barnacle size is significant, since a 10% coverage of barnacles each 5 mm in height caused a similar level of added power requirements to a 50% coverage each 1.25mm in height.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe an experimental and numerical investigation of the Iberdrola TLP wind turbine concept, TLPWIND, in realistic wind and wave conditions, where the TLP was coupled to the NREL 5MW reference turbine and was designed to operate in a water depth of 70m.

TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative round robin testing of different experimental facilities was conducted as part of the EC FP VII MaRINET program in order to evaluate the impact of different test facilities on the test results.

TL;DR: In this paper, it has been found that the anisotropic structure and scales of the turbulence are more consistent with open-channel-based models than atmospheric-based correlations and that the turbulent fluctuations have also been predicted to remain well correlated over the outer span of the blades at the rotational frequency of the rotor.