Improvement of wind turbine performance using a novel tip plate structure

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 123, Issue , 2016, Pages 592-609

  Nobari, M R H ^a   Mirzaee, E ^a   Nosratollahi, M ^a  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Finite volume; GMRES; PISO algorithm; Tip plate; Turbulence; Wind turbine

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DRAG; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; NUMERICAL METHODS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); TURBOMACHINE BLADES; TURBULENCE; TURBULENCE MODELS; VORTEX FLOW; WIND TURBINES;

GMRES; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; HORIZONTAL AXIS WIND TURBINES; K-OMEGA TURBULENCE MODEL; PISO ALGORITHM; PLATE CONFIGURATION; REYNOLDS AVERAGED NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; TURBINE PERFORMANCE;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

EID: 84977609732     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2016.06.078     Document Type: Article

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