| Issue |
EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume 92, 2015
EFM14 – Experimental Fluid Mechanics 2014
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| Article Number | 02058 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| Section | Contributions | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20159202058 | |
| Published online | 06 May 2015 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20159202058
Design of h-Darrieus vertical axis wind turbine
1 University of Valladolid, Spain.
2 University of Zulia, Venezuela.
3 University of Guanajuato, Mexico.
4 Technological University of Durango, Mexico.
a Corresponding author: terpar@eii.uva.es
Published online: 6 May 2015
Numerical simulation is used to predict the performance of a Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT) H-Darrieus. The rotor consists of three straight blades with shape of aerofoil of the NACA family attached to a rotating vertical shaft. The influence of the solidity is tested to get design tendencies. The mesh has two fluid volumes: one sliding mesh for the rotor where the rotation velocity is established while the other is the environment of the rotor. Bearing in mind the overall flow is characterized by important secondary flows, the turbulence model selected was realizable k-epsilon with non-equilibrium wall functions. Conservation equations were solved with a Third-Order Muscl scheme using SIMPLE to couple pressure and velocity. During VAWT operation, the performance depends mainly on the relative motion of the rotating blade and has a fundamental period which depends both on the rate of rotation and the number of blades. The transient study is necessary to characterise the hysteresis phenomenon. Hence, more than six revolutions get the periodic behaviour. Instantaneous flows provide insight about wake structure interaction. Time averaged parameters let obtain the characteristic curves of power coefficient.
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