NUMERICAL ANALYSES OF A STRAIGHT BLADED VERTICAL AXIS DARRIEUS WIND TURBINE: VERIFICATION OF DMS ALGORITHM AND QBLADE CODE

Authors : Abdullah MURATOĞLU, Muhammed Sungur DEMİR

Pages : 195-208

Doi:10.36222/ejt.643483

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Publication Date : 2019-12-30

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Wind energy is among the most cost-effective renewable energies. Till date, turbines with different configurations had been designed to harness wind power, each having unique superiorities. Darrieus turbines are one of the mostly investigated vertical axis wind turbines using either experimental or numerical methods. Experimental analyses are time consuming works which requires high amount of effort and expenses. Thus, computational fluid dynamics insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(CFD); methods have been commonly used by scientists and engineers in order of obtaining detailed performance and illustration of the fluid flow. Contrary to the horizontal axis machines, Darrieus turbines are difficult to be analyzed by CFD algorithms due to high pressure and velocity variations which arise from extreme changes in the angle of attack beyond the stall condition at different azimuthal position of the blades. Therefore, more simplified numerical models are generated employing double multiple streamtube insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(DMS); theory together with additional improvements. QBlade is one of the mostly used numerical methods based on the lifting line free vortex wake method developed for calculating rotor aerodynamics. The main objective of this study is to verify the double multiple streamtube theory and QBlade algorithm with the experimental and computational results reported in the scientific literature. Analysis results represented good agreement with the previous studies especially at lower TSR ranges. Compare to the experimental results, an overestimation in the power coefficient is obtained at low free stream speed and high TSR ranges after exceeding the peak point. Sensitivity of the model to the Re number variations have also been outlined. 
Keywords : VAWT, Darrieus, experiment, CFD, validation, numerical, QBlade

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