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The steady RANS equations are solved numerically to calculate the flow past a wind generator. The numerical method employees a two-block arrangement associated with body-fitted orthogonal curvilinear co-ordinate systems. To simulate turbulence characteristics the k-\(\upomega \)-SST model has been adopted. The effect of flow transition on the performance of the generator is also investigated by applying an empirical method to estimate the instability and transition points. The method is applied to calculate the flow past the MEXICO wind generator which has been tested experimentally in an open wind tunnel and numerical results are compared to existing measured data.
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This research has been co-financed by the European Union (European Social Fund-ESF) and Greek national funds through the Operational Program “Education and Lifelong Learning” of the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF) — Research Funding Program: THALES. The authors wish to acknowledge their significant support.
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Tzabiras, G., Papakonstantinou, V., Voutsinas, S. (2016). A Numerical Study of the Flow Past a Wind Generator. In: Braza, M., Bottaro, A., Thompson, M. (eds) Advances in Fluid-Structure Interaction. Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics and Multidisciplinary Design, vol 133. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27386-0_16
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