Supervisors: Professor Mohamed Pourkashanian, Professor Lin Ma and Professor Derek Ingham. Wind turbine is the main technology that converts wind energy to electricity. The interaction between air ...

The Exascale Comuting Project’s ExaWind suite of computational fluid dynamics codes are designed to develop predictive simulations of wind farms that contain dozens of megawatt-class turbines spread ...

When comparing the efficiency of different wind turbine blade designs, [AdamEnt] found using a hair dryer wasn’t the best tool for the job. Enter his new 3D-printed wind tunnel. After several… ...

“Our CFD studies of shrouded and unshrouded units immediately revealed complex relationships between flow forces on the turbine and the transfer of energy and linear momentum,” says Grassman.

Wind turbines trounce birds, are considered an eyesore by some, and drone ceaselessly. ... Wind farms change the local weather by changing the air flow patterns around them.

“He started off with iPad tools, using Force Effect Flow, a free app that lets you take a 2D photo and sketch a free-body diagram and develop a quick 2D profile to look at the air,” says Twerdok.

This allows them to refine components, compare concepts, and make data-driven decisions faster and more efficiently than relying on physical testing alone.In practice, CFD replaces many early-stage ...

Smaller turbines tailored for urban environments such as AeroVironment's Architectural Wind System, the Honeywell Wind Turbine and the ... showing air flow ... dynamic (CFD ) analyses. However ...