Ross McAdam - List of Research Publications: September 2013
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1. McAdam, R.A. (2011). “Studies into the technical feasibility of the Transverse Horizontal Axis Water Turbine.” DPhil Thesis, The University of Oxford. entire thesis as pdf (12,263 kB)
4. McAdam, R.A., Houlsby, G.T. and Oldfield, M.L.G (2013) “Experimental measurements of the hydrodynamic performance and structural loading of the Transverse Horizontal Axis Water Turbine: Part 3”, Renewable Energy, 59, pp. 82-91, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2013.03.012
3. McAdam, R.A., Houlsby, G.T. and Oldfield, M.L.G (2013) “Experimental measurements of the hydrodynamic performance and structural loading of the Transverse Horizontal Axis Water Turbine: Part 2”, Renewable Energy, 59, pp. 141-149, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2013.03.015
2. McAdam, R.A., Houlsby, G.T. and Oldfield, M.L.G (2013) “Experimental measurements of the hydrodynamic performance and structural loading of the Transverse Horizontal Axis Water Turbine: Part 1”, Renewable Energy, 59, pp. 105–114, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2013.03.016
1. McAdam, R.A., Houlsby, G.T., Oldfield, M.L.G and McCulloch, M.D. (2010) “Experimental testing of the transverse horizontal axis water turbine”, IET Renewable Power Generation, 4, no. 6, pp.
3. Evans, R., McAdam, R.A., Royle, M. and McEwen, L. (2013) “Optimum geometry for axial flow free stream tidalturbine blades”, 10th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference, Aalborg, Denmark. (.pdf)
2. McAdam, R.A., Houlsby, G.T. and Oldfield, M.L.G (2011) “Structural and Hydrodynamic Model Testing of the Transverse Horizontal Axis Water Turbine”, 9th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference, Southampton, UK. (.pdf)
1. McAdam, R.A., Houlsby, G.T., Oldfield, M.L.G and McCulloch, M.D. (2009) “Experimental testing of the transverse horizontal axis water turbine”, 8th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference, Uppsala, Sweden. (.pdf)
2007 - Science Engineering and Technology Civil Engineering Student of the year
2007 - Royal Academy of Engineering award for excellent design in a fourth year project
2007 - Winner of the Cowrie Graduate and Postgraduate Award for the best individual project work in environmental science related to the marine renewables industry
2006 - Joint winner of the Gibbs award for outstanding third year group project design, during the MEng Course at the University of Oxford
1. McAdam, R.A. (2008). “Tidal turbines.” Society of Oxford University Engineers, 2008.