Modeling And Simulation Of Horizontal Wind Turbine Blade

Fazly, Buang (2010) Modeling And Simulation Of Horizontal Wind Turbine Blade. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Wind turbine is a rotating machine that can convert the kinetic energy from wind source into mechanical energy. The mechanical energy will transfer the power into an electrical energy. This wind turbine used is to generate power from wind energy and a type of energy sources that can replace the existed energy sources. The blade design of wind turbine performs as a critical part because it affects the performance of the wind turbine. The related characteristics that can be determined are pressure distribution. This characteristic can be determined by using simulation software. The common software that used to simulate the wind turbine blade is fluent software. Besides that, there is other software that can be used in simulation. In this project, the simulation software used is fluent software to get the data of pressure distribution. Before the simulation is done by using fluent software, the design of blade will be created by using gambit that is the one of the part of CFD software. All the data gained from the simulation will be gathered into a table to define the pattern of the data occur from the simulation. This data will show the change of pressure with different angle of blade. There are four cases of angle with three different wind speed act as the variable on this simulation to make variable of data to be compared. After the simulation is done with fluent software, 30o angle shows the highest value of pressure that is 119.00 Pa for 6.5 m/s, 137.00 Pa for 7.0 m/s and 154.00 Pa for 7.5 m/s wind speed. This 30o angle blade become the best angle to produce more current for the wind turbine. All the data of pressure distribution will be compare with the data from the experiment of the fabricated wind turbine.

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