scholarly journals Investigating the influence of the added mass effect to marine hydrokinetic horizontal-axis turbines using a General Dynamic Wake wind turbine code

Author(s):  
David C. Maniaci ◽  
Ye Li
2012 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 71-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
David C. Maniaci ◽  
Ye Li

AbstractThis paper describes a recent study to investigate the applicability of a horizontal-axis wind turbine structural dynamics and unsteady aerodynamics analysis program (FAST and AeroDyn, respectively) for modeling the forces on marine hydrokinetic turbines. This paper summarizes the added mass model that has been added to AeroDyn. The added mass model only includes flow acceleration perpendicular to the rotor disc and ignores added mass forces caused by blade deflection. A model of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s Unsteady Aerodynamics Experiment Phase VI wind turbine was analyzed using FAST and AeroDyn with seawater conditions and the new added mass model. The results of this analysis exhibited a 3.6% change in thrust for a rapid pitch case and a slight change in amplitude and phase of thrust for a case with 30° of yaw.


Author(s):  
Essam E. Khalil ◽  
Gamal E. ElHarriri ◽  
Eslam E. AbdelGhany ◽  
Moemen E. Farghaly

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 63-71
Author(s):  
Yui-Chuin Shiah ◽  
Chia Hsiang Chang ◽  
Yu-Jen Chen ◽  
Ankam Vinod Kumar Reddy

ABSTRACT Generally, the environmental wind speeds in urban areas are relatively low due to clustered buildings. At low wind speeds, an aerodynamic stall occurs near the blade roots of a horizontal axis wind turbine (HAWT), leading to decay of the power coefficient. The research targets to design canards with optimal parameters for a small-scale HAWT system operated at variable rotational speeds. The design was to enhance the performance by delaying the aerodynamic stall near blade roots of the HAWT to be operated at low wind speeds. For the optimal design of canards, flow fields of the sample blades with and without canards were both simulated and compared with the experimental data. With the verification of our simulations, Taguchi analyses were performed to seek the optimum parameters of canards. This study revealed that the peak performance of the optimized canard system operated at 540 rpm might be improved by ∼35%.


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