Path-consistent schemes for interacting boundary layers

Path-consistent schemes for interacting boundary layers: A discontinuous Galerkin approach

Seubers, Henk (TU Delft Aerospace Engineering)

Ozdemir, Huseyin (mentor)
Gerritsma, Marc (mentor)

Delft University of Technology

Aerospace Engineering | Aerodynamics and Wind Energy

2014-06-02

This study is aimed at modelling of the unsteady interacting boundary layer around wind turbine rotor blades. It is shown that nonconservative mechanisms are present in this system, affecting the definition and approximation of solutions to the problem. The objective is to overcome the inconsistency of classical (dissipative) schemes, and find a suitable approximation method. A path-consistent discontinuous Galerkin method is proposed to correctly model the dynamics of this system. In the future, the current implementation is to be joined with the existing part of the RotorFlow simulation code. This will enable the incorporation of unsteady aerodynamic phenomena in the early design stage of new and large wind turbine rotors, which is currently unfeasible due to the high computational cost.

Integral boundary layer
Nonconservative
Viscous-inviscid interaction

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Student theses

master thesis

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