The Wind Turbine industry continues to drive towards high market penetrationand profitability. In order to keep Wind Turbines in field for as long as possiblecomputational analysis tools are required. The open source tool QBlade[38] softwarewas extended to now contain routines to analyse the structural properties of WindTurbine blades. This was ach...
Published in Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering
This paper summarizes the determination of more realistic local Reynolds and Mach flow numbers at the blades of a large-diameter, horizontal-axis wind turbine designed specifically for this purpose with the aid of the blade element momentum method, and the subsequent effort to extend the validation range of the modified-BPM airfoil trailing edge no...
Wind turbines are large and complex machines which operate in a highly unsteady environment. Due to the spatially and temporally stochastic nature of the wind resource, a large amount of simulation data is needed when one wants to assess the lifetime of such a machine. Both extreme events, such as storms, strong gusts or significant wind direction ...
Published in Measurement Science Review
The wind turbine blade design is important in obtaining an effective wind turbine. In the field of wind energy, it is essential to understand the design and parameters affecting the blades of the wind turbine in order to obtain a successful design. However, most of the parameters are dependent on each other and this makes the design of wind turbine...
[ES] La simulación CFD del flujo a través de las palas de un aerogenerador puede ayudar en su diseño y optimización como lo ha hecho en otras áreas de la ingeniería. Se ha propuesto el uso del programa StarCCM+ para llevar a cabo esta simulación, ya que cuenta con todas las herramientas necesarias en cuanto a mallado, geometría y solver para ello. ...
This study investigates the optimization of the Selig (S1223-il) airfoil to improve the performance of vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) using the QBlade software. The efficiency of wind turbines heavily relies on the design of their airfoils, as they play a critical role in capturing energy from the wind. Parametric optimization methods are empl...
