Publication detail

A numerical investigation of a new horizontal wind turbine performance for rural use

ADJLOUT, A. OMAR, L. TAYEB, Y. ŠIKULA, O. OMAR, I. IMINE, O. ADJLOUT, L.

Original Title

A numerical investigation of a new horizontal wind turbine performance for rural use

Type

journal article in Web of Science

Language

English

Original Abstract

In this paper, a new configuration of a horizontal axis wind turbine with three blades for domestic electricity production on farms was numerically simulated. Three configurations were tested numerically: a standard single-blade wind turbine (STWT), a single wind turbine (SWT), and a tandem three-blade wind turbine (TWT) for rural use. For the tandem wind turbine, the effects of pitch angle and the distance between the blades were also investigated. The Gambit and Fluent 19.2 codes were, respectively, used to generate different meshes and determine various parameters. The resolution of the averaged Navier-Stokes equations (RANS) using a finite volume method was conducted. The k-epsilon realizable two-equation model was chosen for turbulence calculation. The obtained results showed that the maximum power coefficient (Cp) was 0.444 for one of the tandem configurations (TWT), compared to the conventional blade (STWT). The maximum Cp obtained in this study is slightly greater than the experimental results found in the literature. It has also been observed that the flow on these new turbines exhibits a complex phenomenon on both surfaces.

Keywords

Wind turbine; turbulence; torque coefficient; power coefficient; blade; wall shear stress; HAWT

Authors

ADJLOUT, A.; OMAR, L.; TAYEB, Y.; ŠIKULA, O.; OMAR, I.; IMINE, O.; ADJLOUT, L.

Released

27. 8. 2024

Publisher

WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE LTD

Location

SINGAPORE

ISBN

0129-1831

Periodical

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS C

Year of study

1

Number

1

State

Republic of Singapore

Pages from

1

Pages to

10

Pages count

20

URL

https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/full/10.1142/S012918312450205X

BibTex

@article{BUT189606,
  author="Akram {Adjlout} and Ladjedel {Omar} and Yahiaoui {Tayeb} and Ondřej {Šikula} and Imine {Omar} and Omar {Imine} and Lahouari {Adjlout}",
  title="A numerical investigation of a new horizontal wind turbine performance for rural use",
  journal="INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS C",
  year="2024",
  volume="1",
  number="1",
  pages="1--10",
  doi="10.1142/S012918312450205X",
  issn="0129-1831",
  url="https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/full/10.1142/S012918312450205X"
}