The Analysis of Tidal Stream Power

Preface

Website contents

Origin of online images

Copyright acknowledgements

Symbols

Part I Theory

1 History of tidal and turbine science

1.1 Introduction

Part 1 Tidal science

1.2 Antiquity: Aristotle and Ptolemy

1.3 Middle Ages: Copernicus to Galileo

1.4 Isaac Newton and the equilibrium theory

1.5 Measurement after Moray

1.6 Eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: Laplace to Kelvin

1.7 Tide-predicting machines

1.8 Tidal currents

Part 2 Turbine science

1.9 Antiquity: the Romans and Chinese

1.10 Middle Ages: the Syrians and Agricola

1.11 Eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: Smeaton to Kaplan

1.12 Modern turbines

1.13 Summary

1.14 Bibliography

2 Tidal hydraulics

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Elementary fluid flow

2.3 Hydraulic power

2.4 Turbulence and the Reynolds number

2.5 Critical flow and the Froude number

2.6 Bernoulli's equation

2.7 von Kármán's equation

2.8 Properties of the Airy wave

2.9 Tides in estuaries

2.10 Harmonic prediction of tidal currents

2.11 Turbulent characteristics of tidal currents

2.12 Redundancy and intermittency

2.13 Summary

2.14 Bibliography

3 Principles of tidal power devices

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Tidal wheels, mills, and barrages

3.3 Efficiency, capacity factor, and solidity ratio

3.4 Hydraulic processes, Part I: Tidal stream power

3.5 Hydraulic processes, Part II: Ducts and diffusers

3.6 Turbine processes, Part I: Drag and lift forces

3.7 Turbine processes, Part II: Shaft power

3.8 Electrical processes, Part I: Overview and generators

3.9 Electrical processes, Part II: Cabling and grid connection

3.10 Categories of turbines

3.11 Horizontal-axis devices

3.12 Vertical-axis devices (crossflow turbines)

3.13 Summary

3.14 Bibliography

4 Tidal power technologies

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Blue Energy

4.3 Clean Current

4.4 Engineering Business

4.5 Gorlov helical turbine

4.6 Hammerfest