Numerical flow analysis of vertical axis wind turbines with morphing airfoils

变形翼型具有改变其几何形状的能力，以便针对特定的操作流动条件优化气动力。这种技术在应用于垂直轴风力涡轮机（VAWT）时非常有效，因为这些涡轮机的叶片在旋转时会遇到不同的攻角。变桨距技术在过去已经出于同样的目的进行了研究，但是它在机械上更难以实现，并且提供的灵活性比变形翼型更少。变形形状的控制更容易实现，并且具有更大的潜力来优化每个叶片产生的瞬时扭矩。拟议的研究将调查变形翼型，改变几何形状的后缘，因此，拱线的翼型。改变几何形状可用于防止动态失速，以增加旋转的背风部分中的功率提取，以在旋转周期上分配负载或作为制动系统。本研究计划提出了一种方法来了解变形的几何形状的影响，特别是在动态失速。它还包括一个计算工具的开发，用于预测不同变形策略的VAWT提取的功率。

A morphing airfoil has the ability to change its geometry in order to optimize the aerodynamic forces for a specific operating flow condition. This technology can be very effective when applied to vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs), because the blades of these turbines encounter different angles of attack as they rotate. Variable pitch technology has been investigated in the past for the same purpose, but it is mechanically more difficult to implement and offers less flexibility than morphing airfoils. Control of the morphing shape is easier to implement and has a greater potential for optimizing the instantaneous torque generated by each blade. The proposed research will investigate morphing airfoils that change the geometry of the trailing edge, and therefore the camber line of the airfoil. Changing the geometry can be used to prevent dynamic stall, to increase power extraction in the leeward portion of the rotation, to distribute the load over the rotation cycle or as a breaking system. This research plan proposes an approach to understand the influence of morphing the geometry, in particular during dynamics stall. It also includes the development of a computational tool for predicting the power extracted by a VAWT for different morphing strategies.