Studies on Performance of Distributed Vertical Axis Wind Turbine under Building Turbulence

As a part of the new energy development trend,distributed power generation may fully utilize a variety of decentralized energy sources.Buildings close to the installation location,besides,may have a considerable impact on the wind turbines’operation.Using a combined vertical axis wind turbine with an S-shaped lift outer blade and-shaped drag inner blade,this paper investigates how a novel type of upstream wall interacts with the incident wind at various speeds,the influence region of the turbulent vortex,and performance variation.The results demonstrate that the building’s turbulence affects the wind’s horizontal and vertical direction,as well as its speed,in downstreamplaces.The wall’s effect on wind speed changing in the downstreamarea is thoroughly investigated.It turns out that while choosing an installation location,disturbing flow areas or low disturbing flow zones should be avoided to have the least impact on wind turbine performance.

Effects of Airfoil-probe Tubes on the Flow Field of a Compressor Cascade

To explore the effects of airfoil-probe tubes and its installment position on the flow field of the compressor cas- cade, and find out the mechanism that how the airfoil-probes affect the aerodynamic characteristics of the com- pressor cascade, this paper performed both numerical and experimcntal works on the same compressor cascade. The experiment mainly focused on the cases of low Mach number （Ma = 0.1）, and cases with different Mach numbers （0.1, 0.3, 0.7） and different incidence angles （-5, 0, 5） are investigated by the numerical method. The case without the airfoil-probe tube was referenced as the baseline, and other three cases with the airfoil-probe tubes installed in different chordwise positions O0%, 50%, 70% of the chord length） were studied. The diameter of the airfoil-probe tube is 3ram, which is configured as 300% amplification of some particular airfoil-probe ac- cording to the geometrical similarity principle. The results show that the airfoil-probe tubes have a negative in- fluenc~ on the flow capacity of the cascade at all investigation points. The separations and the large scale stream- wise vortices that induced by the airfoil-probe tube on the pressure side cause most the losses at the high Mach number. The influence of the airfoil-probe tube on the flow field in the vicinity of the pressure side surface is lo- cal separation at the low Mach number. The airfoil-probe tubes also have a clearly effect on the leakage flow. It decreases the mass flow of the leakage flow and weakens the intensity of the leakage vortex, but enlarges the in- fluence area. The total pressure loss of the case that the tube is installed at the half chordwise position is generally lower than other cases especially at the high Mach number, it can even decrease the losses compared with the ba- sic case.