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Mixed CFD-1D wind turbine diffuser design optimization
Año:2016

Áreas de investigación
  • Ingeniería mecánica, aeronaútica y naval

Datos
Descripción
A method to design a diffuser augmented wind turbine (DAWT) is proposed, using as a guiding point the optimal pressure drop at the turbine. The use of concepts and expressions derived from a 1D analytic model helped to reduce the number of computational fluid dynamics simulations needed to find the optimal configuration. The proposed configuration can extract energy from the flow with the same efficiency as the state-of-the-art shrouded wind turbine (SWT) configurations but generating a significantly smaller wake, which makes this configuration a good candidate for wind farms or tidal applications. Furthermore, as a product of the 1D model, universal curves for the power coefficient have been obtained, as a function of the thrust coefficient, or disk loading, which have been compared with numerical and experimental results, showing a good agreement. Finally, the maximum ideal power coefficient has been found for a given configuration, which helps to estimate the margin for improvement of an actual design.
Internacional
Si
JCR del ISI
Si
Título de la revista
Renewable Energy
ISSN
0960-1481
Factor de impacto JCR
3,404
Información de impacto
Volumen
2016
DOI
10.1016/j.renene.2016.12.065
Número de revista
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386
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399
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  • Creador: Centro o Instituto I+D+i: Instituto Universitario de Microgravedad "Ignacio da Riva"