Download or read book Framework for aerodynamic shape optimization applied to wind turbine airfoils written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wind Turbine Airfoils and Blades written by Jin Chen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wind Turbine Airfoils and Blades introduces new ideas in the design of wind turbine airfoils and blades based on functional integral theory and the finite element method, accompanied by results from wind tunnel testing. The authors also discuss the optimization of wind turbine blades as well as results from aerodynamic analysis. This book is suitable for researchers and engineers in aeronautics and can be used as a textbook for graduate students.
Download or read book Toward the Aerodynamic Shape Optimization of Wind Turbine Profiles written by Robert M. Ritlop and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Optimization of Wind Turbine Airfoils blades and Wind Farm Layouts written by Xiaomin Chen (Mechanical engineer) and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shape optimization is widely used in the design of wind turbine blades. In this dissertation, a numerical optimization method called Genetic Algorithm (GA) is applied to address the shape optimization of wind turbine airfoils and blades. In recent years, the airfoil sections with blunt trailing edge (called flatback airfoils) have been proposed for the inboard regions of large wind-turbine blades because they provide several structural and aerodynamic performance advantages. The FX, DU and NACA 64 series airfoils are thick airfoils widely used for wind turbine blade application. They have several advantages in meeting the intrinsic requirements for wind turbines in terms of design point, off-design capabilities and structural properties. This research employ both single- and multi-objective genetic algorithms (SOGA and MOGA) for shape optimization of Flatback, FX, DU and NACA 64 series airfoils to achieve maximum lift and/or maximum lift to drag ratio. The commercially available software FLUENT is employed for calculation of the flow field using the Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations in conjunction with a two-equation Shear Stress Transport (SST) turbulence model and a three equation k-kl-[omega] turbulence model. The optimization methodology is validated by an optimization study of subsonic and transonic airfoils (NACA0012 and RAE 2822 airfoils). All the optimization results have demonstrated that the GA technique can be employed efficiently and accurately to produce globally optimal airfoils with excellent aerodynamic properties using a desired objective value (minimum Cd and/or maximum Cl /Cd). It is also shown that the multi-objective genetic algorithm based optimization can generate superior airfoils compared to those obtained by using the single objective genetic algorithm. The applications of thick airfoils are extended to the assessment of wind turbine performance. It is well established that the power generated by a Horizontal-Axis Wind Turbine (HAWT) is a function of the number of blades B, the tip speed ratio [lambda] (blade tip speed/wind free stream velocity) and the lift to drag ratio (Cl /Cd) of the airfoil sections of the blade. The airfoil sections used in HAWT are generally thick airfoils such as the S, DU, FX, Flat-back and NACA 6-series of airfoils. These airfoils vary in (Cl /Cd) for a given B and [lambda], and therefore the power generated by HAWT for different blade airfoil sections will vary. Another goal of this study is to evaluate the effect of different airfoil sections on HAWT performance using the Blade Element Momentum (BEM) theory. In this dissertation, we employ DU 91-W2-250, FX 66-S196-V1, NACA 64421, and Flat-back series of airfoils (FB-3500-0050, FB-3500-0875, and FB-3500-1750) and compare their performance with S809 airfoil used in NREL Phase II and III wind turbines; the lift and drag coefficient data for these airfoils sections are available. The output power of the turbine is calculated using these airfoil section blades for a given B and [lambda] and is compared with the original NREL Phase II and Phase III turbines using S809 airfoil section. It is shown that by a suitable choice of airfoil section of HAWT blade, the power generated by the turbine can be significantly increased. Parametric studies are also conducted by varying the turbine diameter. In addition, a simplified dynamic inflow model is integrated into the BEM theory. It is shown that the improved BEM theory has superior performance in capturing the instantaneous behavior of wind turbines due to the existence of wind turbine wake or temporal variations in wind velocity. The dissertation also considers the Wind Farm layout optimization problem using a genetic algorithm. Both the Horizontal -Axis Wind Turbines (HAWT) and Vertical-Axis Wind Turbines (VAWT) are considered. The goal of the optimization problem is to optimally position the turbines within the wind farm such that the wake effects are minimized and the power production is maximized. The reasonably accurate modeling of the turbine wake is critical in determination of the optimal layout of the turbines and the power generated. For HAWT, two wake models are considered; both are found to give similar answers. For VAWT, a very simple wake model is employed. Finally, some preliminary investigation of shape optimization of 3D wind turbine blades at low Reynolds numbers is conducted. The optimization employs a 3D straight untapered wind turbine blade with cross section of NACA 0012 airfoils as the geometry of baseline blade. The optimization objective is to achieve maximum Cl /Cd as well as maximum Cl. The multi-objective genetic algorithm is employed together with the commercially available software FLUENT for calculation of the flow field using the Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations in conjunction with a one-equation Sparlart-Allmaras turbulence model. The results show excellent performance of the optimized wind turbine blade and indicate the feasibility of optimization on real wind turbine blades with more complex shapes in the future.
Download or read book Aerodynamic Shape Optimization of a Vertical Axis Wind Turbine written by Travis Justin Carrigan and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study is to introduce and demonstrate a fully automated process for optimizing the airfoil cross-section of a vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT). The objective is to maximize the torque while enforcing typical wind turbine design constraints such as tip speed ratio, solidity, and blade pro le. By xing the tip speed ratio and solidity of the wind turbine, there exists an airfoil cross-section for which the torque can be maximized, requiring the development of an iterative design system. The design system required to maximize torque incorporates rapid geometry generation and automated hybrid mesh generation tools with viscous, unsteady computational uid dynamics (CFD) simulation software. The exibility and automation of the modular design and simulation system allows for it to easily be coupled with a parallel di erential evolution algorithm used to obtain an optimized blade design that maximizes the e ciency of the wind turbine.
Download or read book 2023 Asia Pacific International Symposium on Aerospace Technology APISAT 2023 Proceedings written by Song Fu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 1975 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Engineering Design Optimization written by Joaquim R. R. A. Martins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on course-tested material, this rigorous yet accessible graduate textbook covers both fundamental and advanced optimization theory and algorithms. It covers a wide range of numerical methods and topics, including both gradient-based and gradient-free algorithms, multidisciplinary design optimization, and uncertainty, with instruction on how to determine which algorithm should be used for a given application. It also provides an overview of models and how to prepare them for use with numerical optimization, including derivative computation. Over 400 high-quality visualizations and numerous examples facilitate understanding of the theory, and practical tips address common issues encountered in practical engineering design optimization and how to address them. Numerous end-of-chapter homework problems, progressing in difficulty, help put knowledge into practice. Accompanied online by a solutions manual for instructors and source code for problems, this is ideal for a one- or two-semester graduate course on optimization in aerospace, civil, mechanical, electrical, and chemical engineering departments.
Download or read book New Design Concepts for High Speed Air Transport written by H. Sobieczky and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1997-05-21 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the challenges, the tools and the concepts for developing economically viable high speed civil transport aircraft under environmental constraints. Computational tools for aircraft design and optimization are outlined and application in an industrial environment is shown for new and innovative case studies.
Download or read book Aerodynamic Shape Optimization of Two dimensional Airfoils Under Uncertain Conditions written by Luc Huyse and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Recent Development of Aerodynamic Design Methodologies written by Kozo Fujii and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has made remarkable progress in the last two decades and is becoming an important, if not inevitable, analytical tool for both fundamental and practical fluid dynamics research. The analysis of flow fields is important in the sense that it improves the researcher's understanding of the flow features. CFD analysis also indirectly helps the design of new aircraft and/or spacecraft. However, design methodologies are the real need for the development of aircraft or spacecraft. They directly contribute to the design process and can significantly shorten the design cycle. Although quite a few publications have been written on this subject, most of the methods proposed were not used in practice in the past due to an immature research level and restrictions due to the inadequate computing capabilities. With the progress of high-speed computers, the time has come for such methods to be used practically. There is strong evidence of a growing interest in the development and use of aerodynamic inverse design and optimization techniques. This is true, not only for aerospace industries, but also for any industries requiring fluid dynamic design. This clearly shows the matured engineering need for optimum aerodynamic shape design methodologies. Therefore, it seems timely to publish a book in which eminent researchers in this area can elaborate on their research efforts and discuss it in conjunction with other efforts.
Download or read book Shape Optimization of Airfoils Without and with Ground Effect Using a Multi objective Genetic Algorithm written by Yilei He and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of this thesis is on shape optimization using a genetic algorithm. A multi-objective genetic algorithm (MOGA) is employed to optimize the shape of an airfoil to improve its lift and drag characteristics, in particular to achieve two objectives simultaneously that is to increase its lift as well as its lift to drag ratio. The commercially available software FLUENT is employed to calculate the flow field on an adaptive structured mesh, which is generated by the commercial mesh generating software ICEM. The flow field is calculated using the Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations in conjunction with a two equation k-[omega] SST turbulence model. Bezier Curves are employed to generate airfoil shapes for a particular generation of the genetic algorithm; these shapes are tested by MOGA in conjunction with FLUENT to evaluate their fitness by calculating their lift and lift to drag ratio. The process is continued for a number of generations until the lift and lift to drag ratios converge to their optimal values. MOGA optimization method is used to optimize a well-known wind turbine airfoil S809 and NACA 4412 airfoil in ground effect. The results show significant improvement in both the lift coefficient and lift-to-drag ratio of the optimized airfoil compared to the original airfoil.
Download or read book High fidelity Aerodynamic Shape Optimization for Natural Laminar Flow written by Ramy Rashad and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To ensure the long-term sustainability of aviation, serious effort is underway to mitigate the escalating economic, environmental, and social concerns of the industry. Significant improvement to the energy efficiency of air transportation is required through the research and development of advanced and unconventional airframe and engine technologies. In the quest to reduce airframe drag, this thesis is concerned with the development and demonstration of an effective design tool for improving the aerodynamic efficiency of subsonic and transonic airfoils. The objective is to advance the state-of-the-art in high-fidelity aerodynamic shape optimization by incorporating and exploiting the phenomenon of laminar-turbulent transition in an efficient manner. A framework for the design and optimization of Natural Laminar Flow (NLF) airfoils is developed and demonstrated with transition prediction capable of accounting for the effects of Reynolds number, freestream turbulence intensity, Mach number, and pressure gradients. First, a two-dimensional Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) flow solver has been extended to incorporate an iterative laminar-turbulent transition prediction methodology. The natural transition locations due to Tollmien-Schlichting instabilities are predicted using the simplified e^N envelope method of Drela and Giles or, alternatively, the compressible form of the Arnal-Habiballah-Delcourt criterion. The boundary-layer properties are obtained directly from the Navier-Stokes flow solution, and the transition to turbulent flow is modeled using an intermittency function in conjunction with the Spalart-Allmaras turbulence model. The RANS solver is subsequently employed in a gradient-based sequential quadratic programming shape optimization framework. The laminar-turbulent transition criteria are tightly coupled into the objective and gradient evaluations. The gradients are obtained using a new augmented discrete-adjoint formulation for non-local transition criteria. Using the e^N transition criterion, the proposed framework is applied to the single and multipoint optimization of subsonic and transonic airfoils, leading to robust NLF designs. The aerodynamic design requirements over a range of cruise flight conditions are cast into a multipoint optimization problem through a composite objective defined using a weighted integral of the operating points. To study and quantify off-design performance, a Pareto front is formed using a weighted objective combining free-transition and fully-turbulent operating conditions. Next we examine the sensitivity of NLF design to the freestream disturbance environment, highlighting the on- and off-design performance at different critical N-factors. Finally, we propose and demonstrate a technique to enable the design of airfoils with robust performance over a range of critical N-factors.
Download or read book Aerodynamic Shape Optimization of Savonius Wind Turbines written by Danqi He and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adjoint Methods for Aerodynamic Shape Optimization written by Gábor Povorai and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This master thesis investigated the applicability of the Hicks-Henne bump functions and Free-Form Deformation as shape deformation methods used for aerodynamic shape optimization by the adjoint method. In order to alleviate user effort in the setup of simulations and post-processing of results, a MatLab framework has been developed. This framework integrated shape definition, meshing, file management, flow solver and post-processing tools. The external tools were open-source software. to allow the use of arbitrary cell and processor core numbers. The computational fluid dynamics solver, SU2 was used to obtain direct flow and adjoint solutions and to perform shape deformations using the built in nonlinear constrained optimization function. Automatic mesh generation was done using GMSH. The thesis focused on inviscid and viscous 2D problems in the transonic and supersonic flow regimes. The definition of the initial aerodynamic shapes was done using the Class-Shape Transformation method. The test cases optimization problems with the NACA0012 airfoil as the initial airfoil for deformation, with drag reduction as the objective function. The test cases involved different constraints e.g. airfoil thickness, lift coefficient and pitching moment coefficient. Comparisons were made between the two methods in terms of performance in the minimization of the objective function. The results of the optimization problems were compared to reference airfoils from literature. Both deformation methods proved to be effective, clear superiority of one method over the other could not be shown.*****This master thesis investigated the applicability of the Hicks-Henne bump functions and Free-Form Deformation as shape deformation methods used for aerodynamic shape optimization by the adjoint method. In order to alleviate user effort in the setup of simulations and post-processing of results, a MatLab framework has been developed. This framework integrated shape definition, meshing, file manage
Download or read book Handbook of Wind Energy Aerodynamics written by Bernhard Stoevesandt and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-08-04 with total page 1495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides both a comprehensive overview and deep insights on the state-of-the-art methods used in wind turbine aerodynamics, as well as their advantages and limits. The focus of this work is specifically on wind turbines, where the aerodynamics are different from that of other fields due to the turbulent wind fields they face and the resultant differences in structural requirements. It gives a complete picture of research in the field, taking into account the different approaches which are applied. This book would be useful to professionals, academics, researchers and students working in the field.
Download or read book Computational Aerodynamics written by Antony Jameson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-09 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn the design and analysis of numerical algorithms for aerodynamics. Ideal for graduates, researchers, and professionals in the field.
Download or read book Wind Turbine Airfoils and Blades written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
