Performance Characteristics and Optimisation of Marine Current Energy Converter Arrays

Performance Characteristics and Optimisation of Marine Current Energy Converter Arrays

Understanding the effect devices have on the flow is critical in determining how one device may modify both the performance of and loading experienced by another device in the array. It is the aim of this work to identify and investigate the parameters which govern the wake structure and its recovery to the free-stream velocity profile. Scale model testing is being conducted to aid the development of an efficient numerical model.