In this work, the authors present a numerical prediction of erosion on two different blade geometry of a 6 MW HAWT designed for different aerodynamic loading, with the aim of studying their sensitiveness to erosion. First, the fully 3D simulations are performed using an Euler-Lagrangian approach. Flow field simulations are carried out with the open-source code OpenFOAM, based on a finite volume approach, using Multiple Reference Frame methodology. Reynolds Averaged Navier- Stokes equations for incompressible flow were solved with a k-s turbulence model. An in-house code (P-Track) is used to compute the rain drops transport and dispersion, adopting the Particle Cloud Tracking approach (PCT). The PCT was used by some of the authors in previous works (Corsini et al., 2012; Corsini et al., 2014) to predict erosion on both axial and centrifugal fans, obtaining satisfactory results. The PCT allows to simulate a huge number of transported phase tracking just few cloud trajectories, thus resulting in reduction of computational time comparing with single particle tracking approach. Erosion is modelled accounting for the main quantities affecting the phenomenon, which is impact velocity and angle, and material properties of the target surface. Results provide the regions of the two blades more sensitive to erosion, and the effect of the blade geometry on erosion attitude.

Rain erosion numerical modeling applied to multi-MW Off-shore wind turbine / Corsini, Alessandro; Castorrini, Alessio; Venturini, Paolo; Rispoli, Franco. - ELETTRONICO. - (2015), pp. 139-152. (Intervento presentato al convegno 6th International Conference on Computational Methods in Marine Engineering, MARINE 2015 tenutosi a Rome, ITALY nel 2015).

Rain erosion numerical modeling applied to multi-MW Off-shore wind turbine

CORSINI, Alessandro;CASTORRINI, ALESSIO;VENTURINI, Paolo;RISPOLI, Franco
2015

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In this work, the authors present a numerical prediction of erosion on two different blade geometry of a 6 MW HAWT designed for different aerodynamic loading, with the aim of studying their sensitiveness to erosion. First, the fully 3D simulations are performed using an Euler-Lagrangian approach. Flow field simulations are carried out with the open-source code OpenFOAM, based on a finite volume approach, using Multiple Reference Frame methodology. Reynolds Averaged Navier- Stokes equations for incompressible flow were solved with a k-s turbulence model. An in-house code (P-Track) is used to compute the rain drops transport and dispersion, adopting the Particle Cloud Tracking approach (PCT). The PCT was used by some of the authors in previous works (Corsini et al., 2012; Corsini et al., 2014) to predict erosion on both axial and centrifugal fans, obtaining satisfactory results. The PCT allows to simulate a huge number of transported phase tracking just few cloud trajectories, thus resulting in reduction of computational time comparing with single particle tracking approach. Erosion is modelled accounting for the main quantities affecting the phenomenon, which is impact velocity and angle, and material properties of the target surface. Results provide the regions of the two blades more sensitive to erosion, and the effect of the blade geometry on erosion attitude.
2015
6th International Conference on Computational Methods in Marine Engineering, MARINE 2015
particles cloud tracking; rain erosion; wind turbine
04 Pubblicazione in atti di convegno::04b Atto di convegno in volume
Rain erosion numerical modeling applied to multi-MW Off-shore wind turbine / Corsini, Alessandro; Castorrini, Alessio; Venturini, Paolo; Rispoli, Franco. - ELETTRONICO. - (2015), pp. 139-152. (Intervento presentato al convegno 6th International Conference on Computational Methods in Marine Engineering, MARINE 2015 tenutosi a Rome, ITALY nel 2015).
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