Steam turbines are an integral part of power generating systems. The durability and reliability of steam turbines depend heavily on the integrity of their blades. In the last stages of a steam turbine, steam condenses and produces droplets. The effect of these droplets on the ef…
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The marine current turbine (MCT) is an exciting proposition for the extraction of renewable tidal and marine current power. However, the numerical prediction of the performance of the MCT is difficult due to its complex geometry, the surrounding turbulent flow and the free surfa…
In this work we consider a coupled partial differential equation (PDE) model which has appeared in the literature to model various fluid-structure interactions seen in nature. It has been recently shown that this fluid-structure interactive PDE model admits of an explicit semigr…
Harvesting offshore wind energy has been a primary stimulus for research recently as more shreds of evidence show the highly unexploited potential it carries. As water depth increases, fixed-bottom foundations become impractical and floating solutions must be adopted for offshor…
Wind storms pose dangerous threats to human lives and are an enormous drain on the economy. Their damage to buildings usually starts with the failure of structural components that are subjected to excessive wind loads. In this dissertation, we investigate the characteristics of …