CFD and Boundary Layer Models with Laminar-Turbulent Transition around Airfoils and a Rough Cylinder: Results Validation

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caio Fuzaro Rafael ◽  
Diogo Mendes Pio ◽  
Guilherme A. Lima da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Turbulent Transition ◽  
Laminar Turbulent Transition

INFLUENCE OF THE PLATE LEADING-EDGE SHAPE AND THICKNESS ON THE BOUNDARY LAYER LAMINAR-TURBULENT TRANSITION IN HYPERSONIC FLOW

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (5) ◽  
pp. 461-481
Author(s):  
Sergei Vasilyevich Aleksandrov ◽  
Evgeniya Andreevna Aleksandrova ◽  
Volf Ya. Borovoy ◽  
Andrey Vyacheslavovich Gubernatenko ◽  
Vladimir Evguenyevich Mosharov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Hypersonic Flow ◽  
Leading Edge ◽  
Turbulent Transition ◽  
Laminar Turbulent Transition

scholarly journals Investigation of Laminar–Turbulent Transition on a Rotating Wind-Turbine Blade of Multimegawatt Class with Thermography and Microphone Array

Energies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 2102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Torben Reichstein ◽  
Alois Peter Schaffarczyk ◽  
Christoph Dollinger ◽  
Nicolas Balaresque ◽  
Erich Schülein ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Microphone Array ◽  
Suction Side ◽  
Flow Transition ◽  
Turbulent Transition ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Open Question ◽  
Laminar Turbulent Transition

Knowledge about laminar–turbulent transition on operating multi megawatt wind turbine (WT) blades needs sophisticated equipment like hot films or microphone arrays. Contrarily, thermographic pictures can easily be taken from the ground, and temperature differences indicate different states of the boundary layer. Accuracy, however, is still an open question, so that an aerodynamic glove, known from experimental research on airplanes, was used to classify the boundary-layer state of a 2 megawatt WT blade operating in the northern part of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. State-of-the-art equipment for measuring static surface pressure was used for monitoring lift distribution. To distinguish the laminar and turbulent parts of the boundary layer (suction side only), 48 microphones were applied together with ground-based thermographic cameras from two teams. Additionally, an optical camera mounted on the hub was used to survey vibrations. During start-up (SU) (from 0 to 9 rpm), extended but irregularly shaped regions of a laminar-boundary layer were observed that had the same extension measured both with microphones and thermography. When an approximately constant rotor rotation (9 rpm corresponding to approximately 6 m/s wind speed) was achieved, flow transition was visible at the expected position of 40% chord length on the rotor blade, which was fouled with dense turbulent wedges, and an almost complete turbulent state on the glove was detected. In all observations, quantitative determination of flow-transition positions from thermography and microphones agreed well within their accuracy of less than 1%.

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