Influence of blade profiles on Savonius rotor performance: Numerical simulation and experimental validation

被引：108

作者：

Alom, Nur ^{[1
]}

Saha, Ujjwal K. ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Natl Inst Technol Meghalaya, Dept Mech Engn, Shillong 793003, Meghalaya, India

[2] Indian Inst Technol Guwahati, Dept Mech Engn, Gauhati 781039, India

来源：

ENERGY CONVERSION AND MANAGEMENT | 2019年 / 186卷

关键词：

Savonius rotor; Semicircular profile; Benesh profile; Elliptical profile; Modified Bach profile; Torque coefficient; Power coefficient; SST k-omega turbulence model; FVM solver; OPTIMUM DESIGN CONFIGURATION; WIND-TUNNEL EXPERIMENTS; ENERGY; TURBINES; OPTIMIZATION; IMPROVEMENT; SYSTEMS; FORCES;

D O I：

10.1016/j.enconman.2019.02.058

中图分类号：

O414.1 [热力学];

学科分类号：

摘要：

In this work, some notable blade profiles of drag-based vertical axis Savonius wind turbine rotor have been investigated both numerically and experimentally to judge their performances on a common platform. At the outset, 2D unsteady simulation is performed for semicircular, Benesh, modified Bach and elliptical profiles keeping the overall rotor diameter in each case to be constant. The simulation has been carried out using the Shear Stress Transport k-omega turbulence model with the help of the finite volume solver ANSYS Fluent. The torque and power coefficients, in each case, are estimated as a function of tip speed ratio. The total pressure, velocity magnitude, and turbulence intensity contours are obtained and analyzed. Finally, wind tunnel tests are conducted to validate the numerical results. From the numerical simulation, the maximum power coefficients for the semicircular, Benesh, modified Bach and elliptical profiles are found to be 0.272, 0.294, 0.304 and 0.34, respectively. However, the wind tunnel tests with the semicircular, Benesh, modified Bach and elliptical-bladed rotors demonstrated the maximum C-P to be 0.158, 0.159, 0.162, and 0.19, respectively.

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页码：267 / 277

页数：11

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