CFD study of a horizontal axis wind turbine NREL Phase II
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Abstract
The present work aims to study the aerodynamic characteristics of the NREL phase II (generated only with S809 profile along the span for an untwisted case) rotor that is a horizontal axis downwind wind turbine rotor and which is assumed to stand isolated in the space. The two dimensional steady-incompressible flow Reynolds average NavierStokes equations, are solved by using the commercial CFD package Ansys Fluent. The 2D computations are first performed on S809 airfoil in order to define the most suitable model to be used; the turbulence closure model has been chosen among four possible candidates (standard 
, Spalart-Allmaras, 
based on comparison of pressure coefficient for the different configurations with experimental results. Secondly, through a three dimensional study we tried to simulate the experiment for wind speed velocities of 7.2, 10.56, 12.85, 16.3, and 9.18m/s. Results of pressure and torque for considered wind turbine rotor have been directly compared to the available experimental data. The comparisons show that CFD results along with the turbulence model used can predict the span-wise loading of the wind turbine rotor with reasonable agreement. The work presented here is the first stage of project that aims at giving a better understanding of the main influence of the rotational effect on boundary layer separation, and identify the stalled configuration in order to control this latter in future work.
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