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Development of an integrated computational tool for design and analysis of composite turbine blades under ocean current loading
| Title: | Development of an integrated computational tool for design and analysis of composite turbine blades under ocean current loading. |
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| Name(s): |
Zhou, Fang. College of Engineering and Computer Science Department of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation | |
| Issuance: | monographic | |
| Date Issued: | 2013 | |
| Publisher: | Florida Atlantic University | |
| Physical Form: | electronic | |
| Extent: | xvi, 186 p. : ill. (some col.) | |
| Language(s): | English | |
| Summary: | A computational tool has been developed by integrating National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) codes, Sandia National Laboratories' NuMAD, and ANSYS to investigate a horizontal axis composite ocean current turbine. The study focused on the design, analysis, and life prediction of composite blade considering random ocean current, cyclic rotation, and hurricane-driven ocean current. A structural model for a horizontal axis FAU research OCT blade was developed. Following NREL codes were used: PreCom, BModes, ModeShape, AeroDyn and FAST. PreComp was used to compute section properties of the OCT blade. BModes and ModeShape calculated the mode shapes of the blade. Hydrodynamic loading on the OCT blade was calculated by modifying the inputs to AeroDyn and FAST. These codes were then used to obtain the dynamic response of the blade, including blade tip displacement, normal force (FN) and tangential force (FT), flap and edge bending moment distribution with respect to blade rotation. | |
| Identifier: | 863702284 (oclc), 3362582 (digitool), FADT3362582 (IID), fau:4229 (fedora) | |
| Note(s): |
by Fang Zhou. Thesis (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2013. Includes bibliography. Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Adobe Reader. |
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| Subject(s): |
Structural dynamics Fluid dynamics Marine turbines -- Mathematical models Turbines -- Blades -- Design and construction |
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| Held by: | FBoU FAUER | |
| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3362582 | |
| Use and Reproduction: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | |
| Host Institution: | FAU |
