Thanks to the renewed interest in vertical-axis wind turbines, research efforts are devoted at improving the accuracy of present simulation tools, many of which are underdeveloped if compared to those for horizontal-axis turbines. In particular, recent studies demonstrated that a correction for the “virtual camber” effect has a major impact on the simulation. In cycloidal motion indeed the blade aerodynamics are equivalent to those of a virtually-transformed airfoil with a camber line defined by its arc of rotation. In this study, the implementation of a specific module to account for the virtual camber effect in the Open-Source code QBlade is presented. The effectiveness of the model is then validated by four 1-blade and a full 3-blade H-Darrieus turbines, for which both experimental measurements and detailed CFD calculations were available. A sensitivity analysis on the impact of the virtual camber correction on the accuracy of a low-order simulation model has been carried out as a function of the chord-to-radius ratio and the airfoil thickness-to-chord ratio. Reference thresholds for the model applicability are presented for both variables.
Implementation of the "virtual Camber" Transformation into the Open Source Software QBlade: Validation and Assessment / Bianchini, Alessandro*; Marten, David; Tonini, Andrea; Balduzzi, Francesco; Nayeri, Christian Navid; Ferrara, Giovanni; Paschereit, Christian Oliver. - In: ENERGY PROCEDIA. - ISSN 1876-6102. - ELETTRONICO. - 148:(2018), pp. 210-217. (Intervento presentato al convegno 73rd Conference of the Italian Thermal Machines Engineering Association, ATI 2018 tenutosi a Pisa (Italy) nel 2018) [10.1016/j.egypro.2018.08.070].
Implementation of the "virtual Camber" Transformation into the Open Source Software QBlade: Validation and Assessment
Bianchini, Alessandro
;Balduzzi, Francesco;Ferrara, Giovanni;
2018
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Thanks to the renewed interest in vertical-axis wind turbines, research efforts are devoted at improving the accuracy of present simulation tools, many of which are underdeveloped if compared to those for horizontal-axis turbines. In particular, recent studies demonstrated that a correction for the “virtual camber” effect has a major impact on the simulation. In cycloidal motion indeed the blade aerodynamics are equivalent to those of a virtually-transformed airfoil with a camber line defined by its arc of rotation. In this study, the implementation of a specific module to account for the virtual camber effect in the Open-Source code QBlade is presented. The effectiveness of the model is then validated by four 1-blade and a full 3-blade H-Darrieus turbines, for which both experimental measurements and detailed CFD calculations were available. A sensitivity analysis on the impact of the virtual camber correction on the accuracy of a low-order simulation model has been carried out as a function of the chord-to-radius ratio and the airfoil thickness-to-chord ratio. Reference thresholds for the model applicability are presented for both variables.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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