1. A review on the technologies, design considerations and numerical models of tidal current turbines
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Marwane Rouway, Mostapha Tarfaoui, Ibrahim Goda, M. Nachtane, Institut de Mécanique et d'Ingénierie de Bordeaux (I2M), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université de Bordeaux (UB)-École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers (ENSAM), Arts et Métiers Sciences et Technologies, HESAM Université (HESAM)-HESAM Université (HESAM)-Arts et Métiers Sciences et Technologies, HESAM Université (HESAM)-HESAM Université (HESAM)-Institut Polytechnique de Bordeaux-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherche Dupuy de Lôme (IRDL), Université de Bretagne Sud (UBS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées Bretagne (ENSTA Bretagne)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Faculté des Sciences Aïn Chock [Casablanca] (FSAC), and Université Hassan II [Casablanca] (UH2MC)
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Emerging technologies ,Computer science ,Performance prediction ,020209 energy ,02 engineering and technology ,7. Clean energy ,Turbine ,[SPI.MECA.MEFL]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Mechanics [physics.med-ph]/Fluids mechanics [physics.class-ph] ,[SPI]Engineering Sciences [physics] ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,0601 history and archaeology ,14. Life underwater ,Tidal current turbine (TCT) ,060102 archaeology ,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment ,business.industry ,Hydrofoil design ,06 humanities and the arts ,Marine renewable energies ,Renewable energy ,Drag ,Up-to-date review ,Pitching moment ,Electric power ,Energy source ,business ,Marine engineering - Abstract
International audience; Tidal current turbine is one of the innovative and emerging technologies of marine renewable energies because it offers constant and predictable energy source that can be very beneficial, especially for commercial scale production of electrical power. Hydrofoils (HF) are essential elements of tidal current turbine (TCT) and should be properly designed as they play a vital role in improving the turbine output and providing adequate resistance to the blade structure. In connection with the hydrofoil designs, it is noteworthy that the primary objectives in their designs are to increase the coefficient of lift and to reduce the coefficients of drag and pitching moment, thus delaying the cavitation phenomenon. In this paper, the technology developments of the hydrofoil designs used in the horizontal axis TCT industry are reviewed, including the hydrodynamics design and the mechanical structure design. Besides, an up-todate review and the newest achievements of marine TCT technologies with their developing histories are further explored. Included are also reviews on the numerical models used to assess the performance of TCT and optimization methods applied to design the hydrofoils. This in turn significantly contributes to a better knowledge on the recent designs of TCT hydrofoils for the researchers working in the marine turbine energy domain. Such information could also have important implications in the design of more sophisticated hydrofoils for the exploitation in diverse tidal current energy technologies for reaching a sustainable future.
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- 2020