Bio-inspired morphing blades for wind and tidal turbines
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Bio-inspired morphing blades for wind and tidal turbines
CoPED ID
67612fd6-47c5-4837-9942-1a80f2d9d4b2
Status
Active
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Value
No funds listed.
Start Date
Sept. 30, 2021
End Date
Sept. 29, 2025
Description
Airborne and aquatic lifeforms have developed numerous ways of optimising movement in the fluids they inhabit, with adopting shape-adaptive bodies has been one solution to mitigating loads caused by unsteady nature of winds and water currents. Sharing the same operating environments wind and tidal turbines are also subject to the same flow fluctuations which affect the amount of power extractable from the fluid and reduce potential lifetimes of devices due to extra loading. Following successful demonstrations of reducing tidal turbine loads by implementing flexible components in turbine blades this project aims to further investigate and develop the concept of passively-adaptive blades for potential use in tidal and wind power devices.
| University of Edinburgh | LEAD_ORG |
| Ignazio Maria Viola | SUPER_PER |
| Kuba Frankowski | STUDENT_PER |
Subjects by relevance
- Wind energy
- Optimisation
- Wind turbines
- Wind
- Turbines
Extracted key phrases
- Tidal turbine load
- Turbine blade
- Wind power device
- Operating environment wind
- Adaptive blade
- Bio
- Adaptive body
- Potential use
- Potential lifetime
- Aquatic lifeform
- Numerous way
- Power extractable
- Fluid
- Water current