Application of numercal simulation to obtain the optimization pitch angle for VAWT

Author

Chen, Weiyong ; Zhou, C.Y.

Author_Institution

Shenzhen Grad. Sch., Comput. Modeling & Numerical Simulation Lab., Harbin Inst. of Technol., Shenzhen, China

fYear

2009

fDate

24-26 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

A numerical investigation of the influence of pitch angle on vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) aerodynamic performance is carried out using the finite volume method. The attack angle of the wind turbine is studied under a speed ratio lambda = 3D 4, and the pitch angle of the wind turbine is adjusted to optimize the working attack angle and hence the aerodynamic performance of the turbine. The flow is assumed to be 2D fully turbulent and the fluid is incompressible, and turbulence is modeled by the k-w SST. The sliding mesh technique is adopted. The present study shows that an appropriate pitch angle can apparently improve the wind turbine power-coefficient.

Keywords

finite volume methods; wind turbines; 2D fully turbulent; finite volume method; numerical simulation; optimization pitch angle; sliding mesh technique; vertical axis wind turbine aerodynamic performance; wind turbine power-coefficient; Aerodynamics; Blades; Computational fluid dynamics; Computational modeling; Design optimization; Finite volume methods; Power system modeling; Torque; Wind speed; Wind turbines; Pitch Angle; Sliding Mesh; VAWT; Wind Turbine Power-Coefficient;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

World Non-Grid-Connected Wind Power and Energy Conference, 2009. WNWEC 2009

Conference_Location

Nanjing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4702-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WNWEC.2009.5335838

Filename

5335838