On the response of horizontal and vertical axis wind turbines to Turbulence, A wind tunnel experiment

Nicolas A. Tobin; Rishabh Narang; Leonardo P. Chamorro

doi:10.1115/FEDSM2014-22105

On the response of horizontal and vertical axis wind turbines to Turbulence, A wind tunnel experiment

Nicolas A. Tobin, Rishabh Narang, Leonardo P. Chamorro

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Abstract

The turbulent flow modulation on the unsteady behavior of a model VAWT is investigated and compared with a model HAWT of similar size in a laboratory experiment. The turbines operated in low and high freestream turbulence. The research was performed at the Talbot Laboratory wind tunnel at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Highresolution measurements of the turbine voltage for a small, 12 cm HAWT and a 16 cm VAWT are acquired at high temporal resolution, sufficient to capture the turbulent scales of flow relevant to the problem. Both turbines were built at the UIUC rapid prototyping lab and have realistic airfoil shapes. An understanding of the distinctive physical processes modulating the scale-to-scale fluctuating behavior in a VAWT and a HAWT exposed to the same turbulent flow conditions is discussed. A relation between turbulent motions and fluctuating behavior is extended from the knowledge of HAWTs to VAWTs.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Symposia
Subtitle of host publication	Transport Phenomena in Mixing; Turbulent Flows; Urban Fluid Mechanics; Fluid Dynamic Behavior of Complex Particles; Analysis of Elementary Processes in Dispersed Multiphase Flows; Multiphase Flow With Heat/Mass Transfer in Process Technology; Fluid Mechanics of Aircraft and Rocket Emissions and Their Environmental Impacts; High Performance CFD Computation; Performance of Multiphase Flow Systems; Wind Energy; Uncertainty Quantification in Flow Measurements and Simulations
Publisher	American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
ISBN (Electronic)	9780791846247
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1115/FEDSM2014-22105
State	Published - 2014
Event	ASME 2014 4th Joint US-European Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting, FEDSM 2014, Collocated with the ASME 2014 12th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels - Chicago, United States Duration: Aug 3 2014 → Aug 7 2014

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Name	American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Fluids Engineering Division (Publication) FEDSM
Volume	1D
ISSN (Print)	0888-8116

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Other	ASME 2014 4th Joint US-European Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting, FEDSM 2014, Collocated with the ASME 2014 12th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels
Country/Territory	United States
City	Chicago
Period	8/3/14 → 8/7/14

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Tobin, N. A., Narang, R., & Chamorro, L. P. (2014). On the response of horizontal and vertical axis wind turbines to Turbulence, A wind tunnel experiment. In Symposia: Transport Phenomena in Mixing; Turbulent Flows; Urban Fluid Mechanics; Fluid Dynamic Behavior of Complex Particles; Analysis of Elementary Processes in Dispersed Multiphase Flows; Multiphase Flow With Heat/Mass Transfer in Process Technology; Fluid Mechanics of Aircraft and Rocket Emissions and Their Environmental Impacts; High Performance CFD Computation; Performance of Multiphase Flow Systems; Wind Energy; Uncertainty Quantification in Flow Measurements and Simulations (American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Fluids Engineering Division (Publication) FEDSM; Vol. 1D). American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). https://doi.org/10.1115/FEDSM2014-22105

On the response of horizontal and vertical axis wind turbines to Turbulence, A wind tunnel experiment. / Tobin, Nicolas A.; Narang, Rishabh; Chamorro, Leonardo P.
Symposia: Transport Phenomena in Mixing; Turbulent Flows; Urban Fluid Mechanics; Fluid Dynamic Behavior of Complex Particles; Analysis of Elementary Processes in Dispersed Multiphase Flows; Multiphase Flow With Heat/Mass Transfer in Process Technology; Fluid Mechanics of Aircraft and Rocket Emissions and Their Environmental Impacts; High Performance CFD Computation; Performance of Multiphase Flow Systems; Wind Energy; Uncertainty Quantification in Flow Measurements and Simulations. American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014. (American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Fluids Engineering Division (Publication) FEDSM; Vol. 1D).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Tobin, NA, Narang, R & Chamorro, LP 2014, On the response of horizontal and vertical axis wind turbines to Turbulence, A wind tunnel experiment. in Symposia: Transport Phenomena in Mixing; Turbulent Flows; Urban Fluid Mechanics; Fluid Dynamic Behavior of Complex Particles; Analysis of Elementary Processes in Dispersed Multiphase Flows; Multiphase Flow With Heat/Mass Transfer in Process Technology; Fluid Mechanics of Aircraft and Rocket Emissions and Their Environmental Impacts; High Performance CFD Computation; Performance of Multiphase Flow Systems; Wind Energy; Uncertainty Quantification in Flow Measurements and Simulations. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Fluids Engineering Division (Publication) FEDSM, vol. 1D, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), ASME 2014 4th Joint US-European Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting, FEDSM 2014, Collocated with the ASME 2014 12th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels, Chicago, United States, 8/3/14. https://doi.org/10.1115/FEDSM2014-22105

Tobin NA, Narang R, Chamorro LP. On the response of horizontal and vertical axis wind turbines to Turbulence, A wind tunnel experiment. In Symposia: Transport Phenomena in Mixing; Turbulent Flows; Urban Fluid Mechanics; Fluid Dynamic Behavior of Complex Particles; Analysis of Elementary Processes in Dispersed Multiphase Flows; Multiphase Flow With Heat/Mass Transfer in Process Technology; Fluid Mechanics of Aircraft and Rocket Emissions and Their Environmental Impacts; High Performance CFD Computation; Performance of Multiphase Flow Systems; Wind Energy; Uncertainty Quantification in Flow Measurements and Simulations. American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). 2014. (American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Fluids Engineering Division (Publication) FEDSM). doi: 10.1115/FEDSM2014-22105

Tobin, Nicolas A. ; Narang, Rishabh ; Chamorro, Leonardo P. / On the response of horizontal and vertical axis wind turbines to Turbulence, A wind tunnel experiment. Symposia: Transport Phenomena in Mixing; Turbulent Flows; Urban Fluid Mechanics; Fluid Dynamic Behavior of Complex Particles; Analysis of Elementary Processes in Dispersed Multiphase Flows; Multiphase Flow With Heat/Mass Transfer in Process Technology; Fluid Mechanics of Aircraft and Rocket Emissions and Their Environmental Impacts; High Performance CFD Computation; Performance of Multiphase Flow Systems; Wind Energy; Uncertainty Quantification in Flow Measurements and Simulations. American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014. (American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Fluids Engineering Division (Publication) FEDSM).

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