This paper addresses the dimensional analysis of experimental data for the impulse turbine and the use of that data to create a model to predict the performance characteristics of any size of turbine under a range operating conditions. The model assumes that the performance of the turbine is a...

This paper presents the comparison of a three-dimensional Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis with empirical performance data of a 0.6m Impulse Turbine with Fixed Guide Vanes used for wave energy power conversion. Pro-Engineer, Gambit and Fluent 6 were used to create a 3-D model of the...

The results of two three-dimensional CFD models of the 0.6m diameter, 0.6 hub-to-tip ratio Impulse Turbine are compared qualitatively and quantitatively with experimental data for a geometrically similar turbine under similar conditions. One model uses hexahedral cells exclusively to discretise...