Uşar, D.; Bal, Ş. - In: Renewable Energy 80 (2015) C, pp. 15-25
In this paper, the occurrence of cavitation on horizontal axis marine current turbine blades has been investigated by … numerical methods. To implicate the effects of cavitation on turbine performance, a momentum blade element method was used in …% theoretical loss in generated power is predicted for the particular case of a model turbine subjected to cavitation under specific …