1. Numerical study of the effect of tip-speed ratio on hydrokinetic turbine wake recovery
- Author
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Timothy O'Doherty, David S. Thompson, Shanti Bhushan, Joshua Bowman, and Oumnia El Fajri
- Subjects
Tip-speed ratio ,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment ,Turbulence ,Range (aeronautics) ,Environmental science ,Detached eddy simulation ,Mechanics ,Wake ,Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes equations ,Turbine ,Large eddy simulation - Abstract
The predictive capabilities of blade-resolved unsteady Reynolds averaged Navier-Stokes (URANS) and detached eddy simulation (DES), the most commonly used hybrid RANS/large eddy simulation (LES) model, are assessed for hydrokinetic turbine performance and mean and turbulent flows in the intermediate-wake region, and results for a range of tip-speed ratio encompassing design and off-design conditions are analyzed to understand the wake recovery mechanism. The performance predictions compared within 5% of the experimental data. Both URANS and DES models performed reasonably well for the near wake predictions, where the errors were
- Published
- 2022