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Coriolis Effect on Dynamic Stall in a Vertical Axis Wind Turbine at Moderate Reynolds Number

Tsai, Hsieh-Chen and Colonius, Tim (2014) Coriolis Effect on Dynamic Stall in a Vertical Axis Wind Turbine at Moderate Reynolds Number. In: 32nd AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference, 16-20 June 2014, Atlanta, GA. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20190712-112322314

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Abstract

The immersed boundary method is used to simulate the flow around a two-dimensional rotating NACA 0018 airfoil at sub-scale Reynolds number in order to investigate the separated flow occurring on a vertical-axis wind turbine. The influence of dynamic stall on the forces is characterized as a function of tip-speed ratio. The influence of the Coriolis effect is also investigated by comparing the rotating airfoil to one undergoing a equivalent planar motion, which is composed of surging and pitching motions that produce an equivalent speed and angle-of-attack variation over the cycle. When the angle of attack of a rotating airfoil starts to decrease in the upwind half cycle, the Coriolis force leads to a wake-capturing phenomenon of a vortex pair at low tip-speed ratio. This effects occurs at a slightly different phase in each cycle and leads to a significant decrease in the average lift during the downstroke phase. Moreover, the wake-capturing is only observed when the combination of surging, pitching, and Coriolis force are present. Finally, an actuator model is placed at an appropriate location on the suction side of the airfoil surface to control the wake-capturing phenomenon. Based on preliminary simulations, a momentum coefficient above 0.02 was able to increase the average lift by more than 70% over the upwind-half cycle.


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https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2014-3140DOIConference Paper
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Colonius, Tim0000-0003-0326-3909
Additional Information:© 2014 by Hsieh-Chen Tsai. Published by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc., with permission. Published Online: 13 Jun 2014. This project is sponsored by the Caltech Field Laboratory for Optimized Wind Energy with Prof. John Dabiri as PI under the support of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. We would like to thank Profs. John Dabiri and Beverley McKeon and Mr. Reeve Dunne for their helpful comments on our work.
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Subject Keywords:Aerodynamics, Fluids and Thermal Sciences
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