The physical modelling and aerodynamics of turbulent flows around horizontal axis wind turbines

Sherwan A. Abdulqadir, Hector Iacovides and Adel Nasser

Energy, 2017, vol. 119, issue C, 767-799

Abstract: This paper aims to assess the reliability of turbulence models in predicting the flow fields around the horizontal axis wind turbine (HAWT) rotor blades and also to improve our understanding of the aerodynamics of the flow field around the blades. The simulations are validated against data from the NREL/NASA Phase VI wind turbine experiments. The simulations encompass the use of twelve turbulence models. The numerical procedure is based on the finite-volume discretization of the 3D unsteady Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes equations. The resulting simulations are compared with the full range of experimental data available for this case.

Keywords: Computational fluid dynamics; Wind turbine aerodynamics; Unsteady RANS; Turbulence modelling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2016.11.060

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