Turbulent Separated Flow Over a Rounded Divergent Trailing Edge

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Hunter ◽  
Brian Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Separated Flow ◽  
Trailing Edge ◽  
Turbulent Separated Flow

Three-Dimensional and Rotational Aerodynamics on the NREL Phase VI Wind Turbine Blade

2008 ◽  
Vol 130 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alvaro Gonzalez ◽  
Xabier Munduate
Keyword(s):  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Turbine Blade ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Separated Flow ◽  
Leading Edge ◽  
Wind Turbine Blade ◽  
Trailing Edge ◽  
Rotating Blade ◽  
Nrel Phase Vi ◽  
Edge Separation

This work undertakes an aerodynamic analysis over the parked and the rotating NREL Phase VI wind turbine blade. The experimental sequences from NASA Ames wind tunnel selected for this study respond to the parked blade and the rotating configuration, both for the upwind, two-bladed wind turbine operating at nonyawed conditions. The objective is to bring some light into the nature of the flow field and especially the type of stall behavior observed when 2D aerofoil steady measurements are compared to the parked blade and the latter to the rotating one. From averaged pressure coefficients together with their standard deviation values, trailing and leading edge separated flow regions have been found, with the limitations of the repeatability of the flow encountered on the blade. Results for the parked blade show the progressive delay from tip to root of the trailing edge separation process, with respect to the 2D profile, and also reveal a local region of leading edge separated flow or bubble at the inner, 30% and 47% of the blade. For the rotating blade, results at inboard 30% and 47% stations show a dramatic suppression of the trailing edge separation, and the development of a leading edge separation structure connected with the extra lift.

On turbulent separation in the flow past a bluff body

1992 ◽  
Vol 241 ◽  
pp. 443-467 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Neish ◽  
F. T. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Bluff Body ◽  
Separated Flow ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Supporting Evidence ◽  
Turbulent Regime ◽  
Trailing Edge ◽  
Flow Past ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Turbulence Factor

The basic model problem of separation as predicted by the time-mean boundary-layer equations is studied, with the Cebeci-Smith model for turbulent stresses. The changes between laminar and turbulent flow are investigated by means of a turbulence ‘factor’ which increases from zero for laminar flow to unity for the fully turbulent regime. With an attached-flow starting point, a small increase in the turbulence factor above zero is found to drive the separation singularity towards the trailing edge or rear stagnation point for flow past a circular cylinder, according to both computations and analysis. A separated-flow starting point is found to produce analogous behaviour for the separation point. These findings lead to the suggestion that large-scale separation need not occur at all in the fully turbulent regime at sufficiently high Reynolds number; instead, separation is of small scale, confined near the trailing edge. Comments on the generality of this suggestion are presented, along with some supporting evidence from other computations. Further, the small scale involved theoretically has values which seem reasonable in practical terms.

Part II: Steady aerofoil-spoiler characteristics

1987 ◽  
Vol 91 (908) ◽  
pp. 359-366
Keyword(s):  
Separated Flow ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Surface Singularity ◽  
Separation Region ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Trailing Edge ◽  
Singularity Method ◽  
Total Head ◽  
Low Speeds ◽  
Theoretical Results

Summary A surface singularity method has been formulated to predict two-dimensional spoiler characteristics at low speeds. Vorticity singularities are placed on the aerofoil surface, on the spoiler surface, on the upper separation streamline from the spoiler tip and on the lower separation streamline from the aerofoil trailing edge. The separation region is closed downstream by two discrete vortices. The flow inside the separation region is assumed to have uniform total head. The downstream extent of the separated wake is an empirical input. The flows both external and internal to the separated regions are solved. Theoretical results have been obtained for a range of spoiler-aerofoil configurations which compare reasonably with experimental results. The model is deficient in that it predicts a higher compression ahead of the spoiler than obtained in practice. Furthermore, there is a minimum spoiler angle below which a solution is not possible; it is thought that this feature is related to the physical observation that at small spoiler angles, the separated flow from the spoiler reattaches on the aerofoil upper surface ahead of the trailing edge.

Heat Transfer to the Turbulent Separated Flow of Air Downstream of a Step in the Surface of a Plate

1964 ◽  
Vol 86 (2) ◽  
pp. 259-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. A. Seban
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Separated Flow ◽  
Local Heat Transfer ◽  
Local Heat ◽  
Local Heat Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Suction Or Injection ◽  
Turbulent Separated Flow

Experiments on a system in which separation of a turbulent boundary layer occurred at a downward step in the surface of a plate and reattached on the plate downstream of the step have produced additional results for the local heat-transfer coefficient and for the velocity and temperature distribution in the separated and reattached regions of the flow. In neither region was there found the kind of similarity near the wall that characterizes flows that are dominated by the friction at the wall, so that even this first element of the usual rationalization of the heat transfer is unavailable for the interpretation of the results. The effect of suction or injection through a slot at the base of the step is also indicated and this demonstrates relatively small effects on both the pressure distribution and the local heat-transfer coefficient.

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