@article{elfering_metoyer_chatterjee_mazzoleni_bryant_granlund_2023, title={Blade element momentum theory for a skewed coaxial turbine}, volume={269}, ISSN={["1873-5258"]}, url={https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2022.113555}, DOI={10.1016/j.oceaneng.2022.113555}, abstractNote={A coaxial turbine under skew with significant rotor spacing has the potential for increased power output compared to a flow-aligned turbine due to a portion of the downstream rotor experiencing freestream velocity, referred to as a fresh flow region. A lab-scale prototype was designed and built to investigate the skew-to-power relationship of a coaxial turbine system as it compared to a blade element momentum theory model with multiple, sheared streamtubes representing the downstream rotor fresh flow region. The inclusion of the downstream rotor fresh flow region in the theoretical analysis is compared to the experimental data. The results support that the torque and power performance of the downstream rotor and overall skewed coaxial turbine system are predicted more accurately.}, journal={OCEAN ENGINEERING}, author={Elfering, Kelsey and Metoyer, Rodney and Chatterjee, Punnag and Mazzoleni, Andre and Bryant, Matthew and Granlund, Kenneth}, year={2023}, month={Feb} }
 @article{elfering_narsipur_granlund_2022, title={High streamwise airfoil oscillations at constant low and high incidence angles}, volume={34}, ISSN={["1089-7666"]}, url={https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0097570}, DOI={10.1063/5.0097570}, abstractNote={Ratios of streamwise airfoil oscillations to the freestream velocity above 30% have not been well investigated in the literature for a reduced frequency range relevant to unsteady applications. A known departure from the experimental correlation to analytical theory for lower magnitudes of this ratio, known as surge amplitude, motivates a parameter study for constant freestream, at constant low- and high-incidence angles, to understand the circulatory lift dependence on angle of attack, Reynolds number, surge amplitude, and reduced frequency in comparison with theory and higher-order computations. To better understand the increased deviation between theory and experiment with increasing velocity fluctuation, a detailed study of surge amplitude of 0.5 is investigated. The experiment for comparison was a free-surface water tunnel with a NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics) 0018 airfoil oscillated in the streamwise direction. Force measurements, normalized by instantaneous dynamic pressure, reveal that unsteady lift is dependent on Reynolds number and reduced frequency in both attached and fully separated conditions. In separated conditions, mean and fluctuating lift show a dependency on reduced frequency for larger velocity fluctuations than a relative surge amplitude of 10%. Two-dimensional computations were found to agree well with experimental data for Reynolds number 75 k, low incidence cases, and for high incidence with reduced frequencies less than 0.15, where a fully separated upper surface boundary layer condition occurred. Agreement between computations and experiments was not favorable for reduced frequencies above 0.15 for high incidence cases, where partial upper surface boundary layer reattachment is predicted.}, number={8}, journal={PHYSICS OF FLUIDS}, author={Elfering, Kelsey and Narsipur, Shreyas and Granlund, Kenneth}, year={2022}, month={Aug} }
 @article{metoyer_chatterjee_elfering_bryant_granlund_mazzoleni_2021, title={Modeling, simulation, and equilibrium analysis of tethered coaxial dual-rotor ocean current turbines}, volume={243}, ISSN={["1879-2227"]}, DOI={10.1016/j.enconman.2021.113929}, abstractNote={Tethered multirotor axial flow turbines have been proposed to overcome the many challenges associated with extracting ocean current energy where deep waters render seabed mounting strategies infeasible. However, flexible systems are inherently more susceptible to perturbation than fixed systems. The effects of flow misalignment on the hydrokinetic energy conversion of multirotor coaxial turbines have been investigated recently; however, the spatial dynamics and equilibrium behaviors of tethered coaxial turbines have not been well characterized, limiting the ability of designers to explicitly tailor the device behavior. In this work, a computational model of a dual-rotor coaxial turbine is presented, and the model is employed to explore the equilibrium behavior of the turbine with variations in parameters. A complete characterization of the hydrostatic state of the system and a comparative study of representative tethered turbine simulation cases is also presented. Two important findings are presented. First, that a positively buoyant dual-rotor turbine that is anchored to a surface-dwelling platform can operate where the turbine is located at some desired depth below the surface. Second, that more than one turbine system may be anchored to a single point while maintaining the desired orientation and position of each turbine to avoid collision and maximize energy production. The results and methods presented in this paper may be used to inform application-specific coaxial turbine design and to develop additional targeted empirical and simulation studies.}, journal={ENERGY CONVERSION AND MANAGEMENT}, author={Metoyer, Rodney and Chatterjee, Punnag and Elfering, Kelsey and Bryant, Matthew and Granlund, Kenneth and Mazzoleni, Andre}, year={2021}, month={Sep} }
 @article{elfering_granlund_2020, title={Lift Equivalence and Cancellation for Airfoil Surge-Pitch-Plunge Oscillations}, volume={58}, ISSN={["1533-385X"]}, DOI={10.2514/1.J059068}, abstractNote={A NACA 0018 airfoil in freestream velocity is oscillated in longitudinal, transverse, and angle-of-attack directions with respect to the freestream velocity, known as surge, plunge, and pitch. The ...}, number={11}, journal={AIAA JOURNAL}, author={Elfering, Kelsey H. and Granlund, Kenneth O.}, year={2020}, month={Nov}, pages={4629–4643} }