Fully Coupled Aeroelastic Design Tool Development for Vertical-axis Wind Turbines
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CACTUS OPEN SOURCE CODE FOR HYDROKINETIC TURBINE DESIGN AND ANALYSIS: MODEL PERFORMANCE EVALUATION AND PUBLIC DISSEMINATION AS OPEN SOURCE DESIGN TOOL
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Quantification of Margins and Uncertainties Study of Deceleration Environment Sensors for a Ribbon Parachute
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The development of CACTUS : a wind and marine turbine performance simulation code
CACTUS (Code for Axial and Cross-flow TUrbine Simulation) is a turbine performance simulation code, based on a free wake vortex method, under development at Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) as part of a Department of Energy program to study marine hydrokinetic (MHK) devices. The current effort builds upon work previously done at SNL in the area of vertical axis wind turbine simulation, and aims to add models to handle generic device geometry and physical models specific to the marine environment. An overview of the current state of the project and validation effort is provided.
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