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UNH-CORE / RM2-tow-tank-results-paper

Paper describing the results from the 1:6 scale RM2 tow tank experiment at UNH.
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Add RM program background to introduction #43

Closed petebachant closed 8 years ago

petebachant commented 8 years ago

From @nearyvs:

The Reference Model Project (RMP), sponsored by the US Department of Energy, launched six open-source marine hydrokinetic (MHK) technology point designs as reference models (RM) to serve as non-proprietary test articles for open-source research development, and to benchmark performance and costs for technology developers (Neary et al. 2014a,b).

Open-source RMP products, along with supporting documentation, are available at the RMP website http://energy.sandia.gov/rmp to facilitate their use in future R&D studies by industry, academia, and national laboratories.

These products include: Design specifications and SolidWorks™ geometry files for each RM device to allow exact replication for physical and numerical modeling studies; Resource site information used to design each RM device; and references to physical modeling data sets that can be used to validate numerical modeling design and analysis tools.

Reference Model 2 (RM2), shown in Figure 1, is a dual-rotor, crossflow river turbine that was designed to operate in a reach of the lower Mississippi River near Baton Rouge, Louisiana (Barone et al. 2011, Neary 2011).