An improved second-order dynamic stall model for wind turbine airfoils

Scaling of Vertical Axis Wind Turbine Dynamic Stall

Vertical axis wind turbines (VAWT) are an alternative to horizontal axis wind turbines (HAWT) for wind and tidal energy harvesting applications. Studies of vertical axis wind turbines have heavily invested in understanding the behaviour of the complete turbine, but often with only cursory assessment of the contributions of unsteady aerodynamics of individual blades. This paper experimentally ex...

Aerodynamic Analysis of Trailing Edge Enlarged Wind Turbine Airfoils

An improved second-order continuum traffic model

We construct a second-order continuum traffic model by using an iterative procedure in order to derive a constitutive relation for the traffic pressure which is similar to the Navier–Stokes equation for ordinary fluids. Our second-order traffic model represents an improvement on the traffic model suggested by Kerner and Konhäuser since the iterative procedure introduces, in the constitutive rel...

A Numerical Investigation on the Dynamic Stall of a Wind Turbine Section Using Different Turbulent Models

In this article, the flow behavior around a NACA 0012 airfoil which is oscillating with different Reynolds numbers and in various amplitudes has been investigated numerically. Numerical simulations have been performed with ANSYS software. First, the 2D geometry has been studied in different Reynolds numbers and angles of attack with various numerical methods in its static condition. This analys...

Identification of Wind Turbine using Fractional Order Dynamic Neural Network and Optimization Algorithm

In this paper, an efficient technique is presented to identify a 2500 KW wind turbine operating in Kahak wind farm, Qazvin province, Iran. This complicated system dealing with wind behavior is identified by using a proposed fractional order dynamic neural network (FODNN) optimized with evolutionary computation. In the proposed method, some parameters of FODNN are unknown during the process of i...