COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS OF FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION (FSI) IN HORIZONTAL AXIS WIND TURBINES (HAWTS)
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Date
2024-05-02
Authors
Makshatov, Madi
Nurzhanova, Diana
Sataibekova, Aruzhan
Kussinov, Zhanibek
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Nazarbayev University School of Engineering and Digital Sciences
Abstract
Wind power plays a crucial role in the worldwide shift towards sustainable and renewable
sources of energy. Wind turbine power generation performances made them a widely
adopted method for electricity production, playing a crucial role in the world’s energy
resources. Accordingly, optimizing the wind turbine blade’s design is essential for
increasing wind turbine performance and reducing expenses. The main aim of this capstone
project is to analyze the Fluid Structure Interaction of the HAWTs and to achieve the most
effective design of the turbine, in terms of power generation performance and resource
requirement by optimizing the blades using low fidelity methods.
In engineering and scientific studies, low-fidelity and high-fidelity simulation and
optimization have become common concepts, especially in the field of wind turbine design
and analysis. These concepts are essential in order to study computational structure and
controlling the resource demand, as well as improving the operation of the turbines. This
paper focuses on applying low-fidelity optimization techniques with QBlade, which is a
commonly used open-source software for creating aerodynamic simulations of horizontal axis wind turbines. A low-fidelity simulation can involve simplified fluid dynamics
calculations and simplified structural models, in the context of wind turbine design, in
order to forecast the turbine’s effectiveness. Compared to the high-fidelity simulations, low
fidelity simulations are economically and computationally reasonable. It means that, in the
process of optimization of design parameters of the wind turbine more design alternatives
are available in order to reach the most effective parameters.
Computational Analysis of Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) within Horizontal Axis
Wind Turbines (HAWTs) will be studied on the NREL 5MW and NREL Phase VI
turbine. In order to get the optimization results of these wind turbine blades, low fidelity
optimization methods, such as Betz and Schmitz theories will be used.
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Wind Turbines, HAWT, Renewable energy, FSI, Type of access: Embargo
Citation
Makshatov, M., Nurzhanova, D., Sataibekova, A., Kussinov, Zh. (2024). Computational Analysis of Fluid Structure Interaction (FSI) in Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines (HAWTs). Nazarbayev University School of Engineering and Digital Sciences