Enhancement of wind turbine performance by installation above a bluff body

• Main Author: Goh, Ernest Seach Chyr
• Other Authors: Jorg Uwe Schluter
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering::Alternative, renewable energy sources; DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering::Fluid mechanics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/62052
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

When a bluff body is exposed to wind resulting in flow over a forward facing step, the flow field above the bluff body consists of a circulating separation bubble. The wind velocity within this bubble varies from being negative (opposite in direction to the free stream wind) near the top surface of...