An analytical blockage correction model for high-solidity turbines
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Author(s)
Steiros, K
Bempedelis, N
Cicolin, MM
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
A significant challenge in the experimental or computational characterisation of porous bodies and wind turbines is the correction of the obtained flow quantities for wall interference effects. Conventional corrective models are based on the Rankine–Froude theory, which is valid when the body solidity, or turbine induction factor, is sufficiently low. To resolve this issue, this work presents a new corrective model that builds on an extension of the Rankine–Froude theory, valid at arbitrary solidities, coupled with the method of mirror images to account for the existence of channel walls. The predictions of the new model are validated using laboratory and numerical experiments of porous plates and wind turbines. The results show that the new model performs equally as well as conventional ones when the solidity is low, but becomes increasingly more accurate as the latter grows.
Date Issued
2022-10-10
Date Acceptance
2022-09-01
Citation
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022, 948, pp.1-18
ISSN
0022-1120
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Start Page
1
End Page
18
Journal / Book Title
Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Volume
948
Copyright Statement
© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press. This paper has been accepted for publication and will appear in a revised form, subsequent to peer-review and/or editorial input by Cambridge University Press.
Sponsor
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
Identifier
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-fluid-mechanics/article/an-analytical-blockage-correction-model-for-highsolidity-turbines/401DC604EC1B5393E8CA21EEC8BB0D40
Grant Number
EP/V000942/1
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Physical Sciences
Mechanics
Physics, Fluids & Plasmas
Physics
wakes
low-dimensional models
WIND-TURBINE
WAKE CHARACTERISTICS
FLOW
PERFORMANCE
TUNNEL
PLATES
ROTOR
POWER
Fluids & Plasmas
01 Mathematical Sciences
09 Engineering
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
A57
Date Publish Online
2022-09-20