Django
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Tidal Energy
Tidal Turbine
TidalTools
Online Turbine Design Platform
TidalTools - Overview
TidalTools is an online web application with both computational, data management, and social tools. In this post, the structure of the platform and the main tools that are integrated are explained.
This online platform is developed to target the tidal energy sector (for now) but can be further developed to include all offshore energies. The development of this tool aims to facilitate the complicated design procedure of a tidal turbine by managing very few but crucial data. The rest is being handled in the back-end. Besides the design and computational features, this tool benefits from a social part that is developed to connect the people in the tidal energy community. Everyone who is studying, training, working, and doing research in this field can look at this platform as a hub to exchange ideas, organize events, run polls, and get in touch with each other through a fully encrypted messaging platform. Providing these two features both on the same platform is what makes the TidalTools unique and one of a kind.
The platform is designed to be accessible by remote connection using a common web browser from any device with any operating system. The advantage of this approach over the conventional offline approach is:
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Users can always have access to the latest version of the code.
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No huge file to download every time a new version of the platform is being published
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Not being dependent on the operating system
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Users can have access to the code from any device that has a connection to the internet i.e., Tablets and smartphones.
The platform combines several software elements dedicated to providing the users with specific services. However, the platform as mentioned consists of two main parts which are:
1- The Computational Tools:
Where users can perform many tasks like design and performance evaluations of the horizontal axis tidal turbine.
2- The Social part:
Where users get in touch with each other and share their research with others and the admins and authors of the platform.