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Analysis of Different Geometrical Impacts on Wind Turbine Blades

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Renewable power production is getting advancement as an alternative to conventional type power generation. The design of wind turbine blades getting advanced to be efficient, further it needs to exhibit lightweight, durability, high fatigue strength, damage tolerance, the potential of recycling, and stiffness. A lot of efforts were made to upsurge the effectiveness of the wind turbine blades like adding triplets at the edges, biplane blades, blades with moving surfaces. In this work, we tried three different methods for validating the performance of the blades by inducing a hole near the tip of the blades, a material reduction in the tip of the blades with the standard profile of NACA 4415. The results indicated that the standard profile performed better compared to the modified profiles as the velocity at the tip decreases and the pressure on the tip of the blades increased drastically.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, RMK College of Engineering and Technology, Puduvoyal, Tiruvallur, 601206, India

    N. Aravindhan, Chidambaranathan Bibin, S. Murali, M. Marimuthu, Siddi Harsha Vardhan & Santhosh Varma

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Aravindhan, N., Bibin, C., Murali, S., Marimuthu, M., Vardhan, S.H., Varma, S. (2023). Analysis of Different Geometrical Impacts on Wind Turbine Blades. In: Edwin Geo, V., Aloui, F. (eds) Energy and Exergy for Sustainable and Clean Environment, Volume 2. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8274-2_4

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