NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECT OF BLADE AIRFOILS ON A VERTICAL AXIS WIND TURBINE

AKANSU S. O., DAĞDEVİR T., Kahraman N.

ISI BILIMI VE TEKNIGI DERGISI-JOURNAL OF THERMAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, cilt.37, sa.1, ss.115-125, 2017 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 37 Sayı: 1
  • Basım Tarihi: 2017
  • Dergi Adı: ISI BILIMI VE TEKNIGI DERGISI-JOURNAL OF THERMAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.115-125
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Vertical axis wind turbine, Airfoil, CFD, Power coefficient, DESIGN, CONFIGURATIONS, PERFORMANCE, SIMULATION
  • Erciyes Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

In this study, energy performance and aerodynamic forces acted on a vertical-axis Darrieus wind turbine (VAWT) have been examined by using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) program. Numerical investigation is conducted on a blade fixed pitch VAWT using NACA0021, NACA0015, NACA5520 and Clark-Y airfoils as a blade profile to assess its performance, and these four airfoils were compared with each other's. Numerical simulation is done for two-dimensional unsteady flow around the VAWT model by using Ansys-Fluent program which solves Reynolds averaged Navier-Stokes equations. Considered numerical results, NACA5520 can be employed to generate first movement; in addition, the maximum average power coefficient has been obtained for NACA0021.