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http://dx.doi.org/10.7846/JKOSMEE.2011.14.4.273

Viscous Flow Analysis around a Wind Turbine Blade with End Plate and Rake  

Kim, Ju-In (Graduate School, Mokpo National University)
Kim, Wu-Joan (Department of Ocean Engineering, Mokpo National University)
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Journal of the Korean Society for Marine Environment & Energy / v.14, no.4, 2011 , pp. 273-279 More about this Journal
Abstract
Turbulent flow analysis around a wind turbine blade was performed to evaluate the power performance of offshore wind turbine. Fluent package was utilized to solve the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations in non-inertial rotating coordinates. The realizable k-$\varepsilon$ model was used for turbulence closure and the grid system combining structured and unstructured grids was generated. In the first, lift and drag forces of 2-D foil section were calculated and compared with existing experimental data for the validation. Then torque and thrust of the wind turbine blade having NACA 4-series sections were calculated with fixed pitch angle and rpm. Tip speed ratio was varied by changing wind speed. In the next, three kinds of end plate were attached at the tip of blade in order to increase the power of the wind turbine. Among them the end plate attached at the suction side of the blade was found to be most effective. Furthermore, performance analysis with tilt angle and rake was also performed.
Keywords
Wind turbine; CFD; Blade; Thrust; Torque; End plate; Tilt angle; Rake;
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