Aerodynamic and mechanical system modeling of a vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT)

Author

Jaohindy, Placide ; Garde, Franfois ; Bastide, Alain

Author_Institution

Lab. de Phys. et Ing. Math. Appl. a l´Energie et a l´Environ. (PIMENT), Univ. de La Reunion, Le Tampon, France

fYear

2011

fDate

16-18 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

5189

Lastpage

5192

Abstract

The Savonious rotor is a slow running vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) which gets stabilized after a certain period of functioning. This work aims to assess the results of an aerodynamic study concerning a Savonious rotor. The computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is a technique used to solve the airflow around the wind turbine rotor. In this paper, the turbulence models standard k-ε and shear stress transport (SST) k-co are the turbulences models. A three-dimensional study of the problem has been conducted. Firstly, the moment of static forces acting on the rotor blades have been compared to with experimental results. Secondly, the integration of the equation of motion of the Savonious rotor with one degree of freedom (1-DOF) rigid body dynamics model. Implicit schemes for unsteady Euler equations have been used to perform dynamic simulation.

Keywords

aerodynamics; blades; computational fluid dynamics; rotors; shear turbulence; wind turbines; CFD; Savonious rotors; VAWT; aerodynamic modeling; airflow; computational fluid dynamics; mechanical system modeling; rigid body dynamics; rotor blades; shear stress transport; standard k-ε turbulence models; static forces; vertical axis wind turbines; Aerodynamics; Computational modeling; Mathematical model; Numerical models; Rotors; Torque; 1-DOF; CFD; Rigid-rotor; VAWT;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Control Engineering (ICECE), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Yichang

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8162-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECENG.2011.6058214

Filename

6058214