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Effect of Reynolds Number on Rotational Behavior of Low Speed Wind Turbines

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Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power

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Efficiently designed low speed wind turbines can effectively tap the low grade green energy and thus is an endowment to the society. Three-dimensional numerical simulations were carried out to understand the rotational behavior of the designed wind turbine using 6 DOF, finite volume solver model. The speed of rotation of turbine is mapped up with the wind speed. It is found that the rotational speed of turbine increases with inlet wind speed. The inertia of system is found to be high; hence, material selection becomes the objective function in design process. This technique proves to be a sophisticated virtual prototyping tool in design of turbine blades.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India

    P. Viswanathan & T. Prabu

  2. ME Energy Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India

    V. Vijai Kaarthi & J. Archana

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

    T. Prabu

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

    P. Viswanathan

  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

    Amit Agrawal

  4. Department of Mechanical Engineering, S. V. National Institute of Technology Surat, Surat, Gujarat, India

    Jyotirmay Banerjee

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Viswanathan, P., Prabu, T., Vijai Kaarthi, V., Archana, J. (2021). Effect of Reynolds Number on Rotational Behavior of Low Speed Wind Turbines. In: Prabu, T., Viswanathan, P., Agrawal, A., Banerjee, J. (eds) Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0698-4_96

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