Direct Numerical Simulation of flow instabilities over Savonius style wind turbine blades

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd In this paper, Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) are carried out in order to capture the flow instabilities and transition to turbulence occurring on a Savonius style wind turbine (SSWT) blade. Simulations are conducted with the open source code NEK5000, solving the incompressib...

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Main Authors: Ducoin, A., Shadloo, M., Roy, Sukanta
Format: Journal Article
Published: Elsevier 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/61931