Maheri, Alireza, Noroozi, Siamak, Toomer, Chris and Vinney, John (2007) Efficient meshing of a wind turbine blade using force adaptive mesh sizing functions. Renewable Energy, 32 (1). pp. 95-104. ISSN 0960-1481
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This paper describes mesh sizing functions for discretization of a wind turbine blade as a shell structure. Two different functions, one along the blade span and the other chord-wise, are presented. The effect of the magnitude of the aerodynamic force has been considered in a span-wise mesh sizing function to obtain a force-adaptive mesh generator, applicable when the blade needs to be analysed as a part of an aero-structure problem. The direction of the aerodynamic force has been considered in the chord-wise mesh sizing function to improve the mesh efficiency. Results show a large improvement in the rate of convergence when the direction of the external force contributes towards the chord-wise mesh size.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | shells, aerodynamics |
Subjects: | H300 Mechanical Engineering H400 Aerospace Engineering |
Department: | Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Mechanical and Construction Engineering |
Depositing User: | Sarah Howells |
Date Deposited: | 14 Nov 2012 15:39 |
Last Modified: | 13 Oct 2019 00:24 |
URI: | http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/10267 |
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