期刊名称:IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
印刷版ISSN:1755-1307
电子版ISSN:1755-1315
出版年度:2019
卷号:240
期号:5
页码:1-6
DOI:10.1088/1755-1315/240/5/052004
出版社:IOP Publishing
摘要:Tidal currents are a potential source of reliable and renewable energy. Various power generation systems have been proposed. The authors developed a counter-rotating type tidal stream power unit in which the tandem runners make the inner and the outer armatures counter-rotate. The unit is composed of tandem propellers with 3 front and 5 rear blades and has a promising advantage that the rotational torque between the front runner and the rear propellers, namely the inner and the outer armatures, is balanced in the unit. That is, this tidal stream power unit can be moored with only one cable and then its nose and tail will naturally line up in response to the tidal stream by yawing. In this paper, the performance of the propellers in oblique flow conditions were investigated experimentally and numerically. When the coming flow obliquely to the propeller by 30 degrees, the performance deteriorates by 20%.