CFD development and validation at the Wind Energy research group
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Over the last decade the wind energy research section of TNO (former ECN) has made several attempts to incorporate Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) in its portfolio. The applications for using this type of modelling vary from blade design and verification (e.g. airfoil design, innovative blade shapes, blade add­ons) to prediction of wind farm performance. Since 2016 it is acknowledged that a serious wind energy aerodynamics research group should invest in adding this type of tool to its portfolio. Although several commercial and open source code are available that are widely used withing the wind energy community, it was chosen to further develop the SU2 open source CFD code for wind energy applications. Within the last quarter of 2019 a great effort was made to provide the involved personnel within the research group with hands on experience for using CFD tools. One of the most important steps herein constitutes of meshing or grid generation, and a dedicated course on this subject was organized at TNO. Several test cases featuring two­ and three­dimensional flow were then performed reflecting the current state of the CFD capabilities of the research group. Great progress was made towards using CFD in our research and commercial projects. Lastly an outlook is given to the future, which can be considered as a roadmap towards usage of CFD in our daily work.
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TNO Identifier
884958
Publisher
TNO
Collation
41 p.
Place of publication
Petten
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