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Fluid dynamic design of an axial rotor for hydrokinetic riverbed turbine-improvement introduced by a high lift foil profile
Fecha
2016-07Registro en:
Oller Martinez, Sergio Horacio; Nallim, Liz; Oller Martinez, Sergio Horacio; Fluid dynamic design of an axial rotor for hydrokinetic riverbed turbine-improvement introduced by a high lift foil profile; John Wiley & Sons Inc; Environmental Progress & Sustainable Energy; 35; 4; 7-2016; 1198-1206
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CONICET Digital
CONICET
Autor
Oller Martinez, Sergio Horacio
Nallim, Liz
Oller Martinez, Sergio Horacio
Resumen
The main objective of this article is to achieve a very high lift rotor to take the maximum advantage of the kinetic energy of a slow velocity water flow, which belongs to a lowland river type. Low speed flux and lack of depth are the main obstacles in hydrokinetic operation. The use of a high lift aerodynamic profile and the gain of the rotor number of blades serve to accomplish the task. This work presents the fluid dynamic design for an axial hydrokinetic turbine rotor, studied in a three-dimensional (3D) numerical simulation by means of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). The use of CFD techniques avoids some physical model assays. For the hydrokinetic turbine rotor design, first a one-dimensional (1D) theoretical design was carried out, starting with the selection of a suitable airfoil profile to create the hydrofoil blade. Then, the 3D rotor geometry was defined and studied carefully by means of CFD, to check its hydrodynamic behavior, that is, lift and drag, streamline velocities and pressure fields. The CFD results were obtained using an open CFD code (Kratos). © 2016 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Environ Prog, 35: 1198–1206, 2016.