Abstract
Tidal renewable energy can be described as a fledgling industry, with the world’s pilot tidal stream turbine array only recently installed. Full-sized arrays will be developed if they prove their economic, engineering and environmental viability. Reliable numerical tools are needed to optimise power yields in arrays of potentially hundreds of turbines and assess viability of new sites and designs. To demonstrate our capability to optimise the number of turbines and their spatial distribution in a region, we focus on a test case based upon the Alderney Race. The site contains the majority of the Channel Islands resource with plans from both France and Alderney to develop adjacent arrays that could impact on each other. We present a shallow-water model of the English Channel using the Thetis ocean model. Together with the hydrodynamics modelling we employ adjoint technology to optimise the micrositing of turbines for a set of scenarios.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Advances in Renewable Energies Offshore - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Renewable Energies Offshore, RENEW 2018 |
Editors | C. Guedes Soares |
Publisher | [publishername] CRC Press/Balkema |
Pages | 255-262 |
Number of pages | 8 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9780429505324 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781138585355 |
Publication status | Published - 12 Sep 2018 |
Event | 3rd International Conference on Renewable Energies Offshore, RENEW 2018 - Lisbon, Portugal Duration: 8 Oct 2018 → 10 Oct 2018 |
Conference
Conference | 3rd International Conference on Renewable Energies Offshore, RENEW 2018 |
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Country/Territory | Portugal |
City | Lisbon |
Period | 8/10/18 → 10/10/18 |