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Journal of Zhejiang University SCIENCE A 2007 Vol.8 No.9 P.1414-1421

http://doi.org/10.1631/jzus.2007.A1414


Numerical investigation on the flow and power of small-sized multi-bladed straight Darrieus wind turbine


Author(s):  JIANG Zhi-chao, DOI Yasuaki, ZHANG Shu-you

Affiliation(s):  College of Mechanical and Energy Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China; more

Corresponding email(s):   jzcaths@gmail.com, zsy@zju.edu.cn

Key Words:  Small-sized, Straight Darrieus wind turbine, Multi-bladed, Power coefficient


JIANG Zhi-chao, DOI Yasuaki, ZHANG Shu-you. Numerical investigation on the flow and power of small-sized multi-bladed straight Darrieus wind turbine[J]. Journal of Zhejiang University Science A, 2007, 8(9): 1414-1421.

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Abstract: 
straight Darrieus wind turbine has attractive characteristics such as the ability to accept wind from random direction and easy installation and maintenance. But its aerodynamic performance is very complicated, especially for the existence of dynamic stall. How to get better aerodynamic performance arouses lots of interests in the design procedure of a straight Darrieus wind turbine. In this paper, mainly the effects of number of blades and tip speed ratio are discussed. Based on the numerical investigation, an assumed asymmetric straight Darrieus wind turbine is proposed to improve the averaged power coefficient. As to the numerical method, the flow around the turbine is simulated by solving the 2D unsteady Navier-Stokes equation combined with continuous equation. The time marching method on a body-fitted coordinate system based on MAC (Marker-and-Cell) method is used. O-type grid is generated for the whole calculation domain. The characteristics of tangential and normal force are discussed related with dynamic stall of the blade. Averaged power coefficient per period of rotating is calculated to evaluate the eligibility of the turbine.

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