Open AccessCFD ANALYSIS OF THE AIR FLOW AROUND THE BLADES OF THE VERTICAL AXIS WIND TURBINE
Author(s) -
Muhammed Musab Gavgali,
Zbigniew Czyż,
Jacek Czarnigowski
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of technology and exploitation in mechanical engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2451-148X
DOI - 10.35784/jteme.135
Subject(s) - aerodynamics , rotor (electric) , vertical axis wind turbine , computational fluid dynamics , vertical axis , fluent , turbine , mechanics , horizontal axis , flow (mathematics) , blade (archaeology) , turbine blade , wind direction , marine engineering , wind speed , aerospace engineering , mechanical engineering , engineering , structural engineering , physics , meteorology , engineering drawing
The paper presents the results of calculations of flow around the vertical axis wind turbine. Three-dimensional calculations were performed using ANSYS Fluent. They were made at steady-state conditions for a wind speed of 3 m/s for 4 angular settings of the three-bladed rotor. The purpose of the calculations was to determine the values of the aerodynamic forces acting on the individual blades and to present the pressure contours on the surface of turbine rotor blades. The calculations were made for 4 rotor angular settings