On development of practical design tools for tidal stream turbines

Abstract

It is important to customize the tidal stream turbines at given environmental conditions and demand powers. In order to design turbine rotors effectively, the dedicated software was composed of standard design module and customized module as practical turbine design tools and was constructed by a framework using Visual C++ Library. Proposed standard design process can offer the desired specifications and drawings from the pre-constructed performance data of turbine series. It may be useful for public in initial design stage as well as for preliminary energy farm design. Customized design process can analyze the turbine performance using BEMT and DMS code. Present paper deals with the brief analysis and design of both Horizontal Axis Turbine(HAT) and Vertical Axis Turbine(VAT).