Research and development of tidal current turbines has undergone significant growth since the past decades. The trials and errors have led to the improvements for various aspects of tidal current turbines. One of the remaining problems of tidal current turbines is the difficulties in...

Galway Bay has one of the world's few open water marine renewable test sites and so is of national and international interest. A high frequency radar system has been deployed in Galway Bay area to monitor near real time surface currents and waves since July 2011. In this research, a soft...

As devices move from full-scale prototype to commercial installations, it is important that developers have detailed knowledge of the tidal energy resource. Therefore, the spatial distribution of the tidal currents over the northwest European shelf seas has been examined to improve understanding...

Tidal-stream energy devices currently require spring tide velocities (SV) in excess of 2.5 m/s and water depths in the range 25–50 m. The tidal-stream energy resource of the Irish Sea, a key strategic region for development, was analysed using a 3D hydrodynamic model assuming existing, and...

Wave energy conversion (WEC) and Ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) are two potentially significant sources of renewable energy that are available to help the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) developing member countries (DMCs) reduce their dependence on fossil-fuel based energy generation...

Large-scale extraction of power from tidal streams within the Pentland Firth is expected to be underway in the near future. The Inner Sound of Stroma in particular has attracted significant commercial interest. To understand potential environmental impacts of the installation of a tidal turbine...

Hydrodynamic characteristics like lift and drag coefficients of a cascade of blades as well as comprehensive data of pressure loss and flow deflection are important for the design of a hydroturbomachine. In the present paper numerical investigation of flow over a cascade of S-shaped hydrofoils...

As interest in marine renewable energy increases, observations are crucial for understanding the environments that prospective turbines will encounter. Data from an acoustic Doppler velocimeter in Puget Sound, WA are used to perform a detailed characterization of the turbulent flow encountered...