New insights on tidal dynamics and tidal energy harvesting in the Alderney Race

Alexei Sentchev; Jérôme Thiébot; Anne-Claire Bennis; Matthew Piggott

doi:10.1098/rsta.2019.0490

New insights on tidal dynamics and tidal energy harvesting in the Alderney Race

Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci. 2020 Aug 21;378(2178):20190490. doi: 10.1098/rsta.2019.0490. Epub 2020 Jul 27.

Authors

Alexei Sentchev¹, Jérôme Thiébot², Anne-Claire Bennis³, Matthew Piggott⁴

Affiliations

¹ Univ. Littoral Cote d'Opale, Univ. Lille, CNRS, UMR 8187, LOG, Laboratoire d'Océanologie et de Géosciences, Wimereux, France.
² Normandie University, UNICAEN, LUSAC, EA4253, Cherbourg, France.
³ Normandie University, UNICAEN, CNRS, UNIROUEN, UMR CNRS 6143 M2C, Caen, France.
⁴ Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK.

Abstract

The Introduction presents motivations, significance and some key points of the research activities performed in the Alderney Race. This article is part of the theme issue 'New insights on tidal dynamics and tidal energy harvesting in the Alderney Race'.

Keywords: Alderney Race; tidal dynamics; tidal-stream energy.