Feasibility Study of the Impacts of Proposed Tidal Array Installations in Channel Islands
- Homepage
- http://www.energy.soton.ac.uk/marine/marine.html
- Research Team
- William Batten
- Investigators
- Luke Blunden
Tidal streams around the island of Alderney
Open source hydrodynamic modelling software TELEMAC is being used to see whether putting a large number of tidal turbines in the sea near a headland-associated sandbank will affect the feature's long term equilibrium.
Categories
Physical Systems and Engineering simulation: Marine Renewable Energy, Sediment transport
Simulation software: TELEMAC