Turbine flow design has changed little since their invention in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries due to the simplicity and power of these devices to extract energy from the movement of a ...

Cross-flow turbines, also known as vertical-axis turbines, are attractive for power generation from wind and water currents. Some cross-flow turbine designs optimize unsteady fluid forces and maximize ...

Almost every type of renewable energy cycle requires a piece of turbomachinery. Compressors, fans, blowers, pumps, turbines all are critical components in a wide range of renewable energy applications ...

Every day the tide rolls in and out of Puget Sound, and engineers at the University of Washington would like to harvest some of that energy for public use. Tides are a renewable energy source that is ...