Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction.................................................................................................................4
1.1 Background.....................................................................................................................4
1.2 Major parameters used in the wind energy calculation....................................................6
1.3 Objectives........................................................................................................................8
Chapter 2 Literature Review........................................................................................................8
2.1 Horizontal axis wind turbines..........................................................................................8
2.2 Vertical axis wind turbines............................................................................................10
2.3 Wind Energy calculations methodologies......................................................................11
Chapter 3 Methodology.............................................................................................................14
3.1 Method of Blade Element Momentum (BEM)..............................................................14
3.2 Theory of Momentum....................................................................................................14
3.3 Theory for Axial Momentum.........................................................................................14
3.4 Theory of blade element................................................................................................16
Chapter 4 Simulation.................................................................................................................20
4.1 2D CFD.........................................................................................................................20
4.1.1 2D-CFD.................................................................................................................20
4.1.2 Results 2D-CFD....................................................................................................21
4.2 3D CFD.........................................................................................................................25
4.2.1 Annex XX blade....................................................................................................25
4.2.2 Geometric properties of the Annex XX blade........................................................26
4.2.3 3D-CFD Results....................................................................................................27
Chapter 5 Results and Discussions.............................................................................................28
5.1 BEM Results.................................................................................................................28
Chapter 6 Conclusion.................................................................................................................32
References.....................................................................................................................................32
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