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Tidal Stream Energy with Wouter Remmerie

Tidal Stream Energy with Wouter Remmerie

Update: 2021-11-30
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In this episode of the Fluid Mechanics 101 Podcast, I discuss the challenges in tidal stream turbine design with Wouter Remmerie. Wouter Remmerie is a founder and owner of AirShaper. AirShaper is an online platform that allows you to carry out aerodynamics CFD simulations in the cloud, with no expert knowledge of CFD, aerodynamics or specific software.   


Checkout the abbreviated podcast (with video clips and diagrams) here: https://youtu.be/c3VaPgTJh88


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Timetamps 


0:00 Introduction 


3:11 Aidan's CFD Background 


4:48 Wind Rotors and Tidal Rotors 


9:30 Aeroplane Tip Vortices 


12:10 Rotor Tip Vortices 


14:30 Turbine Farm Layout 


17:40 Downstream spacing 


21:21 Marine life growth 


24:30 Rotor power and size 


28:59 Tidal Sites around the World 


34:41 Lateral Blockage 


39:55 Spacing research (MeyGen) 


41:45 Ducted Turbines 


43:12 Support Structures 


45:28 Cavitation 


49:39 Outro  


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Follow Wouter Remmerie on: 


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YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/AirShaper 


Web https://www.airshaper.com 


Facebook https://www.facebook.com/AirShaper 


LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/airshaper


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More Information: 


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Dr Aidan Wimshurst's Doctoral Thesis https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:a91acd6f-dc86-4cad-bf5e-b042e81840dc 


Dr Aidan Wimshurst's Research on ResearchGate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Aidan-Wimshurst

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Tidal Stream Energy with Wouter Remmerie

Tidal Stream Energy with Wouter Remmerie

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