Objectives

The main purpose of the experimental campaign that has taken place during the summer of 2009 was to assert the energy extraction potential of the oscillating-wing turbine technology. This has been done via extensive measurements on a complete prototype in operation.

Numerous CFD simulations were performed over the last 4 years in order to optimize the oscillating-wing concept. Comparison of the CFD predictions with high quality field measurements should help validate and/or improve the numerical models.

The 3-year HAO-Laval project has culminated during the summer 2009 in a prototype testing campaign whose purpose was twofold:

1.    To demonstrate and quantify the energy extraction potential of the oscillating-wing turbine concept;
2.    To validate the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling performed at the LMFN (Computational fluid dynamics laboratory).