Abstract Vertical axis wind turbine blades undergo dynamic stall due to the large angle of attack variation they experience during a turbine rotation. Particle image velocimetry on a pitching and surging airfoil was used to perform time resolved measurements at blade Reynolds numbers near turbine operating conditions of 10 5 . These experiments were compared to simulations performed in the rotating turbine frame as well as the linear, experimental, frame at a Reynolds number of 10 3 to investigate rotational and Reynolds number effects. The flow was shown to develop similarly prior to separation, but the kinematics of vortices shed post separation were reference frame dependent.


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    Title :

    Leading Edge Vortex Development on Pitching and Surging Airfoils: A Study of Vertical Axis Wind Turbines


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    Publication date :

    2016-01-01


    Size :

    7 pages





    Type of media :

    Article/Chapter (Book)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English






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