It is important to study the pressure distribution on the blade and in the adjacent area while searching the poweraugmentation theory with adding a tip vane to the wind turbine.This paper shows the CFD simulation rela...It is important to study the pressure distribution on the blade and in the adjacent area while searching the poweraugmentation theory with adding a tip vane to the wind turbine.This paper shows the CFD simulation relation-ship of the pressure distribution on the rotor blade and in the adjacent area,after calculating the pressure of thedifferent chordwise and spanwise point on the blade with the tip vane-V(8.8x8) and without the tip vane under tipspeed ratio λ4.5.Combining the isobaric section figure in certain location,it can be seen that the tip vane im-prove the pressure difference between pressure and suction surface.The most influenced zone is found and thesecan further display the power augmentation theory of the wind turbine using the tip vane.The simulation calcula-tion was based on N-S equations.3-D,steady,implicit solver was chosen.Turbulence model was k-ω SST.Dis-cretization scheme is SECOND ORDER UPWIND.Pressure-velocity coupling was a typical SIMPLE scheme.Inthe whole grid system,two-divided grid formation was adopted,that is,inner region and outer region.Inner re-gion including rectangular solid blade and neighboring,outer region is semi-cylinder.There were together720,000 nodes with tetra-prism unstructured mesh.展开更多
基金Project 50566001 supported by NSFCProject 200308020207 supported by Inner Mongolia Autono- mous Region Natural Science Foundation of China.
文摘It is important to study the pressure distribution on the blade and in the adjacent area while searching the poweraugmentation theory with adding a tip vane to the wind turbine.This paper shows the CFD simulation relation-ship of the pressure distribution on the rotor blade and in the adjacent area,after calculating the pressure of thedifferent chordwise and spanwise point on the blade with the tip vane-V(8.8x8) and without the tip vane under tipspeed ratio λ4.5.Combining the isobaric section figure in certain location,it can be seen that the tip vane im-prove the pressure difference between pressure and suction surface.The most influenced zone is found and thesecan further display the power augmentation theory of the wind turbine using the tip vane.The simulation calcula-tion was based on N-S equations.3-D,steady,implicit solver was chosen.Turbulence model was k-ω SST.Dis-cretization scheme is SECOND ORDER UPWIND.Pressure-velocity coupling was a typical SIMPLE scheme.Inthe whole grid system,two-divided grid formation was adopted,that is,inner region and outer region.Inner re-gion including rectangular solid blade and neighboring,outer region is semi-cylinder.There were together720,000 nodes with tetra-prism unstructured mesh.
