Simulating the effect of non-axial airflow on the motion of an undriven propeller

• Main Authors: Ng, Francis Gregory, Chua, Alvin
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2020
• Subjects: Propellers; Wind power; Photogrammetry; Computational fluid dynamics; Mechanical Engineering
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/2896
• Institution: De La Salle University

It is evident that a windmill propeller action can be induced by airflow along its rotation axis. Whereas it has been proven that a spinning propeller has a significantly lower drag than a fixed one, this is unlikely to be the case when the airflow is non-axial. To properly account for this type of...