Project title: The Effect of Turbulence on Wind Turbine
Other PhD projects in Aerospace Engineering
| PhD student: | Mahyar Mahmoodilari |
| Qualification: | BSc, MSc |
| Country: | Iran |
| Sponsor: | BP |
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| Research group: | Energy, Environment and Climate Change |
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| Supervisor: | Prof Konstantinos Kontis, Prof Peter Stansby |
Research interests: Turbulence Flow, CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics), Atmospheric Boundary Layer
Project abstract
Experimental and numerical simulation approaches have been carried out to investigate the significance of turbulence (turbulence intensity, length scale and anisotropy) on the wind turbine output. The aim was to provide an adequate insight into the turbulence flow and its effect on the wind turbine. An experimental investigation was performed in BOB tunnel in the University of Manchester with a 1 m2 cross section and 6 m in length. The flow turbulent characteristics have been established and maintained along the tunnel using three conventional obstacles (grid, elliptic vortex generator and bunch of wooden cubes) and combination of them. The flow features have been measured using cross hot wire anemometry. The effect of different flow patterns has been quantified on a specific NACA aerofoil using force balance technique for a range of low Reynolds numbers (3×104-7×104). In parallel to the experimental effort, a simulation approach has being accomplished by means of the commercial package, Star-CD. The best turbulent model responses have been validated with respect to the obtained experimental data.
| Fig 1. Wind turbine | Fig 2. Turbulence flows | Fig 3. CFD |  |
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Publications
Journal Papers
- i. Yacine Addad, M. Mahmoodilari, Dominique R. Laurence “LES AND RANS COMPUTATIONS OF NATURAL CONVECTION IN A NEARLY-HORIZONTAL SHALLOW CAVITY” ICHMT Int. Symp. on Advances in Computational Heat Transfer, Vol. CHT-08-343, (2008)