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Numerical Simulation of Roughness Effects of Ice Accretion on Wind Turbine Airfoils

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  • Khaled Yassin

    (ForWind-Centre for Wind Energy Research, Institute of Physics, University of Oldenburg, 26129 Oldenburg, Germany
    Current address: Institute of Energy and Climate Research (IEK-14), Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, 52425 Juelich, Germany.)

  • Hassan Kassem

    (Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems, Küpkersweg 70, 26129 Oldenburg, Germany)

  • Bernhard Stoevesandt

    (Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems, Küpkersweg 70, 26129 Oldenburg, Germany)

  • Thomas Klemme

    (Senvion GmbH, Überseering 10, 22297 Hamburg, Germany
    Current address: Nordex Energy SE & Co., KG, Service Product Management, Langenhorner Chaussee 600, 22419 Hamburg, Germany.)

  • Joachim Peinke

    (ForWind-Centre for Wind Energy Research, Institute of Physics, University of Oldenburg, 26129 Oldenburg, Germany)

Abstract

One of the emerging problems in modern computational fluid dynamics is the simulation of flow over rough surfaces. A good example of these rough surfaces is wind turbine blades with ice formation on its leading edge. Instead of resolving the airflow field using a fine computational grid near the wall, rough wall functions (RWFs) can be used to model the flow behavior in case of the presence of roughness. This work aims to investigate the performance of state-of-the-art RWFs to show which of these models can provide the most accurate results with the lowest computational cost possible. This aim is achieved by comparing coefficients of lift and pressure resulting from CFD simulations with wind tunnel results of an airfoil with actual ice profiles collected from the site. The RWFs are used to simulate airflow field over the airfoil profiles with ice profile attached to its leading edge using OpenFOAM CFD framework. The comparison of the numerical simulations and the wind tunnel measurements showed that the Colebrook RWF provided the best agreement between simulation and experimental results while using about 20% of the number of cells used with smooth RWF.

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  • Khaled Yassin & Hassan Kassem & Bernhard Stoevesandt & Thomas Klemme & Joachim Peinke, 2022. "Numerical Simulation of Roughness Effects of Ice Accretion on Wind Turbine Airfoils," Energies, MDPI, vol. 15(21), pages 1-20, November.
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