Unsteady flow simulation and dynamic stall behaviour of vertical axis wind turbine blades

Wind Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 511-527

  Qin, Ning ^a   Howell, Robert ^a   Durrani, Naveed ^a   Hamada, Kenichi ^a   Smith, Tomos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Darrieus wind turbine; dynamic stall; numerical simulation; sliding mesh; vertical axis wind turbine; Wind energy; wind turbine performance

Indexed keywords

3D SIMULATIONS; BLADE TIP; BLADE WAKE; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; DYNAMIC STALL; DYNAMIC STALLS; FAR-FIELD; FIXED MESH; FLOW FEATURES; NEAR FIELDS; SLIDING MESH; SLIDING MESH TECHNIQUE; THREE DIMENSIONAL EFFECT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL UNSTEADY FLOW; UNSTEADY REYNOLDS AVERAGED NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; VERTICAL AXIS WIND TURBINES; WIND TURBINE PERFORMANCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW SIMULATION; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; UNSTEADY FLOW; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

FLOW FIELD; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL MODEL; ROOF; UNSTEADY FLOW; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 80052876490     PISSN: 0309524X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/0309-524X.35.4.511     Document Type: Article

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