Kelvin Waves Structure Analysis of a Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine Tip Vortices

• Published in: Journal of Applied Fluid Mechanics Vol. 13; no. 5; pp. 1421 - 1435
• Main Authors: Oueslati, M M, Dahmouni, A W, Nasrallah, S Ben
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Isfahan Isfahan University of Technology 01.09.2020
• Subjects: Cartography; Compression; Deformation; Energy conversion; Energy dissipation; Energy loss; Energy sources; horizontal axis wind turbine; three-dimensional wake; kelvin waves; velocity gradient tensor; flow separation; stretching-compression; Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines; Kelvin waves; Longitudinal waves; Optimization; Structural analysis; Tensors; Tubes; Turbines; Velocity gradient; Vortices; Wavelengths; Wind power; Wind tunnels; Wind turbines

The optimization of the wind energy conversion is one of the most important domains which was widely interested researchers. The instabilities in the wind turbine wake are one of the sources of energy loss which strongly influenced the helical tube vortex structure and are generally difficult to be...