Surrogate-Based Optimization of Horizontal Axis Hydrokinetic Turbine Rotor Blades

A design method was developed for automated, systematic design of hydrokinetic turbine rotor blades. The method coupled a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) solver to estimate the power output of a given turbine with a surrogate-based constrained optimization method. This allowed the characterizatio...

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Main Authors: David Menéndez Arán, Ángel Menéndez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-07-01
Series:Energies
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/14/13/4045