High-fidelity 2-way FSI simulation of a wind turbine using fully structured multiblock meshes in openfoam for accurate aero-elastic analysis

• Main Authors: Zhangaskanov, Dinmukhamed, Batay, Sagidolla, Kamalov, Bagdaulet, Zhao, Yong, Su, Xiaohui, Ng, Eddie Yin Kwee
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Engineering::Mechanical engineering; Two-Way FSI; MB Mesh
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/164716
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

With increased interest in renewable energy, the power capacity of wind turbines is constantly increasing, which leads to increased rotor sizes. With ever larger rotor diameters, the complex and non-linear fluid-structure interaction (FSI) effects on wind turbine aerodynamic performances become sign...