Numerical Research on the Change Regularity of S Series Airfoil Tip Vortex

Abstract:

This paper take the impeller of S series airfoil for instance, in view of the complex flow field which is in the condition for the optimum attack angle of design wind velocity with tip vortex, presents a new generating strategy of grid based on controlling gradient method which takes the non-uniform tetrahedral grid with gradient gradual change in the near blade wall flow field. The transition layer grid which is in the development from body-fitted field to the middle of the domain having relatively high density of grid contrast with the far flow field can well capture the size and location of tip vortex, and find that the decay rate of the vorticity magnitude of tip vortex of S series impeller is more quickly than the tip vortex of traditional airfoil impeller. As well as find a fraction of central vortex and tip vortex shaded into each other in the far field and Doppler effect in the downstream. Because the numerical experiment and analysis showed that through controlling gradient change of grid can get high precision of calculating results, can also get S series impeller had higher efficiency in conversion of wind energy contrast with NACA series impeller, so the generating strategy of grid is reasonable and effective.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 401-403)
• Pages: 379-382
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.401-403.379
• Online since: September 2013
• Authors: Wei Min Wu, Yuan Jun Dai
• Keywords: S Series Airfoil, Tetrahedral Grid, Tip Vortex, Vorticity Magnitude, Wind Turbine (WT)

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