Hi there, I'm currently and undergraduate looking to try out different airfoils for analysis to do with tidal turbine blades. I'm currently researching previous papers about these blades and found one I want to model. In order to proceed they said they use blade element momentum theory. They give all parameters required but I still don't know how they come up with the answers or graphs.
The final graphs they produce are:
Chord length vs (r/R)
blade twist angle vs (r/R)
The whole process is stressing me out!!!
Any help or point in the right direction would be helpful.
I don't know if it will be of any help or additional information for you but you might take a look at the below online reference
wind_turbine_design.pdf
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