Vertical Axis Wind Turbine - Part 1

Created using ANSYS 16.2

This tutorial has two parts. The first part will analyse the flow using Moving Frame of Reference, while the second part will used the Sliding Mesh feature.

Learning Goals

In this tutorial, you will learn to:

• Determine the flow behavior over a Vertical Axis Wind Turbine
• Apply concepts of Moving Frame of Reference in FLUENT to simplify a transient problem into a steady state situationIN NEXTS: creating multiple parts mesh and use in Sliding Mesh 

Problem Specification

Consider an uniform flow of V = 10m/s passing through a Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT) as sketched above. The VAWT has a diameter of 12cm and 3 equally spaced blades, each one with a chord length of 2cm. For simplification, consider that it spins with a constant angular velocity of 40 RPM*. The center of each blade is located 0.04m from the center of the hub.

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