Key R&D Institutions and Relevant R&D Projects:
The New Zealand group led by Dr Ross Vennell has made significant advances in quantifying theoretical impacts of large turbine arrays. This is enabling ideas around tuning and temporal sequencing of tuning to maximise energy extraction for minimum flow disturbance. References:
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![]() Flow disturbance from a modest array of turbines (Divett, Vennell and Stevens. “Optimization of multiple turbine arrays in a channel with tidally reversing flow by numerical modelling with adaptive mesh.” Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 371, no. 1985 (2013): 20120251) |