{"id":1147,"date":"2007-10-05T12:07:29","date_gmt":"2007-10-05T12:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.blogs.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/?p=1147"},"modified":"2007-10-05T12:07:29","modified_gmt":"2007-10-05T12:07:29","slug":"3d-array-simulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/3d-array-simulations\/","title":{"rendered":"3D Array simulations: Phase 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Initial simulations of arrays of tidal turbines have been performed using FLUENT a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) package. The use of CFD allows analysis of several possible farm simulations with different boundary conditions. Details of these initial simulations have been published in:<\/p>\n<p><b>Batten W.M.J. and Bahaj A.S.<\/b>\u00a0(2006) CFD simulation of a small farm of horizontal axis marine current turbines.\u00a0<i>Proceedings World Renewable Energy Congress (WREC-IX)<\/i>, Florence, 19-25 August 2006.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1150\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/files\/2006\/06\/arrays_CFD_farm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1150\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1150\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/files\/2006\/06\/arrays_CFD_farm.jpg\" width=\"340\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/files\/2006\/06\/arrays_CFD_farm.jpg 340w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/files\/2006\/06\/arrays_CFD_farm-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1150\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Predicted velocity field around 3 rows of marine current turbines<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A typical simulation, using actuator disks is shown in figure on the right for 3 rows of turbines. The rows are of infinite width with the use of mirror boundaries. These results show that between the first row of turbines there is a region of flow acceleration akin to a venturi. This could mean that these turbines would produce more power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Initial simulations of arrays of tidal turbines have been performed using FLUENT a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) package. The use of CFD allows analysis of several possible farm simulations with different boundary conditions. Details of these initial simulations have been published in: Batten W.M.J. and Bahaj A.S.\u00a0(2006) CFD simulation of a small farm of horizontal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90699,"featured_media":1150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[417955],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tidal-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90699"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}