Showing 7 results for Dynamic Stall
Seyed Erfan Salimipour, Shima Yazdani,
Volume 15, Issue 6 (8-2015)
Abstract
In the present paper, a two dimensional numerical analysis of the dynamic stall phenomenon associated with unsteady flow around the NACA 0012 airfoil at low Reynolds number (Re ≈ 130000) is studied. For this purpose, a thin blade with height of 0.005 chord length was placed vertically on the airfoil to control the bursting of the laminar leading edge separation bubble. The numerical simulation of flow is based on discretization of convective flaxes of the turbulent unsteady Navier-stokes equations by second-order Roe’s scheme and an explicit finite volume method in a moving coordinate system. Because of the importance of the time dependent parameters in the solution, the second-order time accurate is applied by dual time stepping approach. Three oscillating patterns with different frequencies and angular amplitudes were used to study the dynamic stall phenomenon. In order to validate the operation of computer code, some results for static and dynamic stall are compared with experimental data. The results of this study showed that the burst control blade had the acceptable effects on the dynamic stall control; so that these effects were increased while the oscillation frequency was raised. The best result occurs in 5 deg angular amplitude and reduced frequency of 0.15; so that the lift stall reduced 50% and there was not any obvious stall in drag coefficient.
Kobra Gharali, Eshagh Gharaei, Majid Soltani,
Volume 17, Issue 3 (5-2017)
Abstract
When a Horizontal axis wind turbine works under yaw condition, each blade element can be considered as an oscillating pitch airfoil while the free stream velocity oscillates horizontally. The unsteady free stream velocity, which is usually ignored, oscillates with the same frequency as the airfoil oscillations and has a great impact on the periodic forces produced by the airfoil oscillation. In order to study the effects of unsteady free stream
velocity on the aerodynamic loads, a 2D NACA0012 oscillating airfoil at Reynolds number of 135000 has been simulated. In this simulation, reduced frequency, reduced amplitude and the phase difference between the free stream velocity oscillation and the airfoil angle of attack oscillation are 0.1≤k≤0.25 ، 0.2≤λ≤0.8 و ϕ=0 ,π, respectively. Results show that free stream oscillations affect the aerodynamic loads, vortex strengths
and dynamic stall characteristics. The lift force can be increased by more than 7 times than that of static case and 3 times compared to the load from steady free stream velocity. Depending on 𝜙 value, the dynamic stall angle of attack can be advanced 1 degree or delayed by more than 7 degrees by increase of reduced amplitude. Also, increase of k always causes delay in leading edge vortex formation and consequently delay in dynamic stall occurrence.
Gholamreza Abdizadeh, Hamid Ahmadvand, Mohammad Mehdi Jafari,
Volume 17, Issue 4 (6-2017)
Abstract
Dynamic stal behavour of a NACA0012 airfoil undergoing pitching motion has been studied by a numerical approach. The turbulence intensity, oscillation frequency and amplitude and the Reynolds number were found to be the major contributors in dynamic stall. The flowfield structure and the associated vortices for this airfoil as well as the impact of the oscillation frequency on aerodynamic efficiency were also studied. The simulations were two dimensinal and the k-ω SST turbulence model were utilized for the present analysis. The results show that increasing the oscillation frequency and amplitude and the turbulence intensity, postpones the dynamic stall to higher angles of attack. Furthermore, as increasing the Reynolds number, both the lift coefficient and the width of the associated hysteresis loop decrease. The airfoil aerodynamic efficiency variation with oscillation frequncy has been shown to have a maximum point for all angles of attack considered. The flowfield structure revealed that the main cause of the dynamic stall is a series of low pressure vortices formed at the leading edge which shed into downstream and separate from the surface. A secondary vortex will then appear and increases the lift coefficient dramatically. The present simulation results are in a good agreement whith those found in the literature.
Sepehr Rasekh, Saeed Karimian Aliabadi, Mohammad Hosseinidoust,
Volume 18, Issue 3 (5-2018)
Abstract
In this paper, the Semi-Empirical and numerical methods that can be used to investigate the effects of dynamic stall are compared with each other, and the capabilities of the methods are studied. The experimental measurements have been used in order to compare the methods. The Semi-Empirical Leishman-Beddoes (L-B), Snel and ONERA methods have been used, and the finite volume method was being used for numerical simulations. The lift coefficient was being calculated by all the methods at various conditions, and the drag coefficient had been computed by the numerical and Leishman-Beddoes methods. The parameters that have been used in order to compare the methods, are the maximum lift coefficient value, the angle of attack of the largest lift coefficient, the error at upstroke phase and the error at down stroke phase. The results show among the semi-empirical models; the L-B method has the highest precision to predict the lift coefficient, and although the numerical method can investigate the flow with more details, but the error percentage at the down stroke phase is higher than expectations. The results from the drag coefficient modeling show that the numerical method can predict this coefficient better than the L-B method. The results also can help other researchers to select the best dynamic stall model in order to investigate the wind-turbine aerodynamics.
Ehsan Bakhtiari, Kobra Gharali, Seyed Farshid Chini,
Volume 18, Issue 8 (12-2018)
Abstract
Dynamic motion of a 2D SD7037 airfoil is investigated numerically in presence of a slip boundary condition. The dynamic motion of the airfoil is a harmonic oscillation, where the frequency and the amplitude of oscillations were adequate to airfoil to undergoing dynamic stall phenomenon. Dynamic stall occurred when the dynamic motion of the airfoil causes dynamic stall vortices, resulting in leading edge and trailing edge vortices which lead to rising the aerodynamic loads significantly. Analyzing the phenomena is challenging especially when a slip boundary condition exists near the airfoil wall. This particular condition is the general property of super-hydrophobic surfaces. These surfaces could potentially prevent the blade from icing. The main characteristic of these coatings is the appearance of a slip velocity on the wall. The slip velocity can affect the airfoil aerodynamics which is the main purpose of this paper. In this regard, a 2D airfoil with the Reynolds number of Re≈4×〖10〗^4 is analyzed using computational fluids dynamics (CFD). The Transition-SST model is applied. The results showed that not only the slip condition affects the aerodynamic loadings, but also the dynamic stall regimes changed considerably. So that for slip lengths higher than 100 micrometers, the maximum magnitude of the lift coefficient damped by 16%.
E. Bakhtiari ,
Volume 19, Issue 9 (9-2019)
Abstract
A wind turbine airfoil was analysed, using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to study the oscillating effects and slip boundary conditions. The slip boundary condition is due to applying superhydrophobic surface. Fluids on these surfaces are repelled. The superhydrophobic surface can delay the icing on blades. The surfaces is assumed at the leading edge; the icing can occur on this region. The chosen oscillation parameters was enough for modelling dynamic stall. The dynamic stall cause a severe loading on the blade. This phenomenon is depicted by two vortices: leading edge vortex and trailing edge vortex. Three reduced frequencies are considered:
in a range of
slip lengths. In this regard, the Transition-SST model is applied for SD7037 airfoil with
. The results showed that applying a superhydrophobic surface with low values of the slip length cannot be appropriate during the oscillating motion; but at the slip lengths larger than 100 microns, the aerodynamic coefficients are significantly changed. At the highest reduced frequency, the lift and drag coefficients are reduced about 12% and 40%, respectively. Increasing the slip length postponed the vortex formation and stall angle.
M.h. Sadr, D. Badiei, Sh. Shams,
Volume 19, Issue 10 (10-2019)
Abstract
In precision of the aerodynamic coefficients, modification and development of the Boeing-Vertol model are the main goal of the presented paper in which unsteady wake effects are considered. Hence, this paper uses based on Wagner function to consider the unsteady wake effects and to introduce an effective angle of airfoil degrees of freedom and their derivatives for both bending and pitching oscillations. The aerodynamic lift coefficient of the Boeing- model is improved by using the introduced effective angle of attack and flow apparent mass effects. Also, a new pitching moment coefficient is introduced and is replaced in the model. The introduced aerodynamic coefficients are validated and verified by experimental data and also compared with the original model. The obtained results represent correction of the lift coefficient of the Boeing Vertol model in of the static lift curve and improvement of maximum lift coefficient and of . Also, the results show that the proposed formulation enhances the Boeing Vertol model to predict moment coefficient in dynamic condition. In addition, a parametric study is conducted to investigate the effects of reduced frequency on effective angle of attack and it is shown that while reduced frequency increases to 0.36, unsteady wake effects on effective angle of attack of an airfoil reach to its maximum value. Moreover, for reduced frequencies upper than 0.1, pitch axis location changes the characteristics of the effective angle of attack of the airfoil.
