Intro -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- 1 Continuum Models for Interacting Machines Dieter Armbruster, Pierre Degond, Christian Ringhofer -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Heuristic Models -- 1.2.1 Quasistatic Models -- 1.2.2 Advection-Diffusion Equations -- 1.2.3 Policies and Bottlenecks -- 1.2.3.1 Dispatch...

A Wells turbine blade for wave power conversion has hysteretic characteristics in a reciprocating flow. The hysteretic loop is opposite to the well-known dynamic stall of an airfoil. In this paper, the mechanism of the hysteretic behavior was elucidated by an unsteady 3-dimensional Navier-Stokes...

A Wells turbine is one of the simplest and promising self-rectifying air turbines which is basic to the needs of the near future and likely to be economically viable. With the recent development in computer hardware and software, it has now become practicable to conduct a reasonable computation...