The fraction of potential realized by the farms in an un-constricted channel for both examples as we add turbines is represented in the figure 15(a,b). The figure shows three tuning strategies, optimal in-concert tuning, optimal tuning for turbines considering a single row alone in the channel and Lanchester-Betz tuning. Thick lines are for ϵ=0.25 and thin lines are for ϵ=0.1. It can be observed that there are larger differences amongst the tunings after realizing 50% of the potential for both turbine densities, with in-concert tunings giving best results. Also the shallow channel realizes potential rapidly for less number of rows compared to tidal strait. Moving further, the differences amongst the tuning strategies is more for moderate turbine densities compared to small turbine densities.
Figure 15(a,b): Variation of farm efficiency with three tuning strategies as turbines are added to a farm in a channel without constriction. The chained dashed curves are for Lanchester-Betz optimal tuning, r_3=1/3. Solid curves are for optimal in-concert tunings and dashed curves are for optimal tunings of turbines when single row alone is tuned, OSTRA. Adapted from [5]
Figure 16: Effect on (a) farm efficiency and (b) flow reduction by adding turbine rows to an optimally tuned farm which occupies 20% of the cross-section. Solid curves are for shallow channel and dashed curves are for tidal strait. Adapted from [7]
For optimal in-concert tunings, the tunings increase as the rows are added owing to sharing of load from a finite source over more rows, though there is a diminishing return from new rows. In other two tuning strategies, power available peaks and decreases beyond that upon addition of rows. Thus in-concert tunings are required ...
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...ticular cross-section would be proportional to product of fluid density and cube of flow velocity, which makes the water current of given speed, is as effective as wind current with 9.5 times the speed. The force on the turbines is proportional to the fluid density times square of the flow stream velocity. Hence, for a tidal turbine producing same power as the wind turbine, the force on the current turbine is greater to that of the wind turbine by the ratio of their speeds. Turbines require additional support structures for installation. The drag force on these structures due to the flow reduces the flow without generating any power. If the force on the turbines is F_T, and the force on the support structures is F_S, then the power available that is calculated will be reduced by a factor of F_T⁄((F_T+F_S)). This will be a significant decrease in the power available.
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