S. Oller, L. Nallim
The main objective of this article is to achieve a very high lift rotor to take the maximum advantage of the kinetic energy of a slow velocity water flow, which belongs to a lowland river type. Low speed flux and lack of depth are the main obstacles in hydrokinetic operation. The use of a high lift aerodynamic profile and the gain of the rotor number of blades serve to accomplish the task. This work presents the fluid dynamic design for an axial hydrokinetic turbine rotor, studied in a three-dimensional (3D) numerical simulation by means of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). The use of CFD techniques avoids some physical model assays. For the hydrokinetic turbine rotor design, first a one-dimensional (1D) theoretical design was carried out, starting with the selection of a suitable airfoil profile to create the hydrofoil blade. Then, the 3D rotor geometry was defined and studied carefully by means of CFD, to check its hydrodynamic behavior, that is, lift and drag, streamline velocities and pressure fields. The CFD results were obtained using an open CFD code (Kratos) This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: [Oller, S. A., Nallim, L. G. and Oller, S. (2016), Fluid dynamic design of an axial rotor for hydrokinetic riverbed turbine-improvement introduced by a high lift foil profile
Keywords:
You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason:
You are not allowed to execute the action you have requested.
You can view and copy the source of this page.
Return to Oller Nallim 2016b.
Published on 01/01/2016
DOI: 10.1002/ep.12320Licence: CC BY-NC-SA license
Views 5Recommendations 0