Control of dynamic stall phenomenon for vertical axis wind turbine.

Autor: Frunzulică, Florin, Dumitrescu, Horia, Dumitrache, Alexandru, Suatean, Bogdan
Zdroj: AIP Conference Proceedings; Oct2013, Vol. 1558 Issue 1, p1257-1260, 4p, 2 Diagrams, 2 Graphs
Abstrakt: In the last years the wind turbine with vertical axis (VAWT) began to be more attractive due benefits in exploitation, the power range covering usually the domain 2 kW-20 kW. But, VAWTs suffer from many complicated aerodynamically problems, of which dynamic stall is an inherent phenomenon when they are operating at low values of tip speed ratio (TSR < 4), and this has a significant impact on vibration, noise, and power output of the VAWTs. For this reason, in the present work we perform a computational investigation of a two-dimensional dynamic stall phenomenon around a NACA0012 airfoil in oscillating motion at relative low Reynolds number (∼105). The unsteady flow is investigated numerically using RANS approach with two turbulence models (k-ω SST and transition SST). The same analysis was performed to evaluate three flow control methods: two passive and one active. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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