Bulletin of the American Physical Society
66th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics
Volume 58, Number 18
Sunday–Tuesday, November 24–26, 2013; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Session E13: Focus Session: Marine Hydrokinetic Energy Conversion III |
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Chair: Luksa Luznik, United States Naval Academy Room: 301 |
Sunday, November 24, 2013 4:45PM - 4:58PM |
E13.00001: Flow Structures and Energy Capture from an Oscillating Hydrofoil Jennifer Franck, Sarah Frank, Shreyas Mandre The flow surrounding an oscillating hydrofoil in a uniform freestream is computationally investigated for hydrokinetic energy capture. Simulations are performed on an elliptical hydrofoil using 2D Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) for low Reynolds number and 3D Large-Eddy Simulations (LES) for high Reynolds number simulations at 80,000. A non-inertial reference frame is utilized for rigid-body motion of the hydrofoil, which is prescribed a sinusoidal motion in pitch and heave. The kinematic parameters are varied and the resulting flow features are correlated with positive or negative energy capture. In an effort to optimize the stroke, variations in the sinusoidal heave and pitch signals are systematically explored and analyzed for future closed-loop control. [Preview Abstract] |
Sunday, November 24, 2013 4:58PM - 5:11PM |
E13.00002: On the effects of turbine geometry on the far wake dynamics of an axial flow hydrokinetic turbine Fotis Sotiropoulos, Xiaolei Yang, Seokkoo Kang In large-eddy simulation (LES) of multi-turbine arrays actuator disk (AD) or actuator line (AL) models are employed to simulate individual turbines. Such parameterizations do not take into account the details of the turbine geometry and, therefore, cannot be expected to accurately resolve the flow in the near wake. We investigate the performance of AD and AL models by comparing their predictions with laboratory measurements and with LES resolving the geometrical details of the turbine. We simulate the flow past an axial flow hydrokinetic turbine in a fully-developed turbulent flow in an open channel using: turbine-geometry resolving LES (LES-TG) and LES-AD and LES-AL parameterizations. We show that LES-TG reveals very complex large-scale dynamics in the near wake, driven by the interaction of a counter-rotating to the turbine hub vortex and the top-tip shear layer, which appears to influence both the mean flow characteristics and the intensity of wake meandering several rotor diameters downstream. The LES-AD and LES-AL results cannot capture the geometry-induced complex near wake phenomena and yield flows that exhibit important differences with the LES-TG results in the far wake. The mechanisms that give rise to and modeling implications of these differences will be discussed. [Preview Abstract] |
Sunday, November 24, 2013 5:11PM - 5:24PM |
E13.00003: Large-eddy simulation of the flow over a hydrokinetic turbine mounted on an erodible bed Xiaolei Yang, Ali Khosronejad, Fotis Sotiropoulos Marine and hydrokinetic (MHK) energy comprises an important source of clean and renewable energy. The beds of natural waterways are usually erodible. The hydrokinetic turbines affect the sediment transport, which, on the other hand, also influences the performance of hydrokinetic turbines. A powerful computational framework for simulating marine and hydrokinetic (MHK) turbine arrays mounted in complex river bathymetry with sediment transport has been developed and validated by our group. In this work we apply this method to simulate the turbulent flow over a hydrokinetic turbine mounted in an open channel with erodible bed. Preliminary results show qualitatively good agreement with the experiment. Detailed comparison with measurements and analysis of the simulation results will be presented in the conference. [Preview Abstract] |
Sunday, November 24, 2013 5:24PM - 5:37PM |
E13.00004: Numerical Modeling and Experimental Analysis of Scale Horizontal Axis Marine Hydrokinetic (MHK) Turbines Teymour Javaherchi, Nick Stelzenmuller, Joseph Seydel, Alberto Aliseda We investigate, through a combination of scale model experiments and numerical simulations, the evolution of the flow field around the rotor and in the wake of Marine Hydrokinetic (MHK) turbines. Understanding the dynamics of this flow field is the key to optimizing the energy conversion of single devices and the arrangement of turbines in commercially viable arrays. This work presents a comparison between numerical and experimental results from two different case studies of scaled horizontal axis MHK turbines (45:1 scale). In the first case study, we investigate the effect of Reynolds number (Re=40,000 to 100,000) and Tip Speed Ratio (TSR=5 to 12) variation on the performance and wake structure of a single turbine. In the second case, we study the effect of the turbine downstream spacing (5d to 14d) on the performance and wake development in a coaxial configuration of two turbines. These results provide insights into the dynamics of Horizontal Axis Hydrokinetic Turbines, and by extension to Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines in close proximity to each other, and highlight the capabilities and limitations of the numerical models. Once validated at laboratory scale, the numerical model can be used to address other aspects of MHK turbines at full scale. [Preview Abstract] |
Sunday, November 24, 2013 5:37PM - 5:50PM |
E13.00005: Simulation of Marine Hydrokinetic Turbines in Unsteady Flow using Vortex Particle Method Danny Sale, Alberto Aliseda A vortex particle method has been developed to study the performance and wake characteristics of Marine Hydrokinetic turbines. The goals are to understand mean flow and turbulent eddy effects on wake evolution, and the unsteady loading on the rotor and support structures. The vorticity-velocity formulation of the Navier-Stokes equations are solved using a hybrid Lagrangian-Eulerian method involving both vortex particle and spatial mesh discretizations. Particle strengths are modified by vortex stretching, diffusion, and body forces; these terms in the vorticity transport equation involve differential operators and are computed more efficiently on a Cartesian mesh using finite differences. High-order and moment-conserving interpolations allow the particles and mesh to exchange field quantities and particle strengths. An immersed boundary method which introduces a penalization term in the vorticity transport equations provides an efficient way to satisfy the no-slip boundary condition on solid boundaries. To provide further computational speedup, we investigate the use of multicore processors and graphics processing units using the OpenMP and OpenCL interfaces within the Parallel Particle-Mesh Library. [Preview Abstract] |
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