Effect of Blade Profile on the Performance of Wells Turbine under Unidirectional Sinusoidal and Real Sea Flow Conditions

This paper presents the effect of blade profile and rotor solidity on the performance of Wells turbine operating under unidirectional unsteady flow conditions. In the study, four kinds of blade profile were selected, that is, NACA0020, NACA0015, CA9, and HSIM 15-262123-1576. The experiments have bee...

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Main Authors: A. Thakker, R. Abdulhadi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2007-01-01
Series:International Journal of Rotating Machinery
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2007/51598
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description This paper presents the effect of blade profile and rotor solidity on the performance of Wells turbine operating under unidirectional unsteady flow conditions. In the study, four kinds of blade profile were selected, that is, NACA0020, NACA0015, CA9, and HSIM 15-262123-1576. The experiments have been carried out for two solidities, σ = 0.48 and σ = 0.64, under sinusoidal and irregular unsteady flow conditions based on Irish waves (site2). As a result, it was found that the preferable rotor geometry is the one with blade profile of CA9 with solidity σ = 0.64. In addition, the effect of blade profile and rotor solidity on hysteretic characteristics of the turbine has been clarified experimentally and it was found to be in good agreement qualitatively when compared to numerical results (Setoguchi et al. (2003)).
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spelling doaj-art-38a7e08b93ce471aa0635965940871c12025-02-03T01:25:05ZengWileyInternational Journal of Rotating Machinery1023-621X1542-30342007-01-01200710.1155/2007/5159851598Effect of Blade Profile on the Performance of Wells Turbine under Unidirectional Sinusoidal and Real Sea Flow ConditionsA. Thakker0R. Abdulhadi1Wave Energy Research Team, Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, University of Limerick, Limerick L1-011, IrelandWave Energy Research Team, Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, University of Limerick, Limerick L1-011, IrelandThis paper presents the effect of blade profile and rotor solidity on the performance of Wells turbine operating under unidirectional unsteady flow conditions. In the study, four kinds of blade profile were selected, that is, NACA0020, NACA0015, CA9, and HSIM 15-262123-1576. The experiments have been carried out for two solidities, σ = 0.48 and σ = 0.64, under sinusoidal and irregular unsteady flow conditions based on Irish waves (site2). As a result, it was found that the preferable rotor geometry is the one with blade profile of CA9 with solidity σ = 0.64. In addition, the effect of blade profile and rotor solidity on hysteretic characteristics of the turbine has been clarified experimentally and it was found to be in good agreement qualitatively when compared to numerical results (Setoguchi et al. (2003)).http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2007/51598
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Effect of Blade Profile on the Performance of Wells Turbine under Unidirectional Sinusoidal and Real Sea Flow Conditions
International Journal of Rotating Machinery
title Effect of Blade Profile on the Performance of Wells Turbine under Unidirectional Sinusoidal and Real Sea Flow Conditions
title_full Effect of Blade Profile on the Performance of Wells Turbine under Unidirectional Sinusoidal and Real Sea Flow Conditions
title_fullStr Effect of Blade Profile on the Performance of Wells Turbine under Unidirectional Sinusoidal and Real Sea Flow Conditions
title_full_unstemmed Effect of Blade Profile on the Performance of Wells Turbine under Unidirectional Sinusoidal and Real Sea Flow Conditions
title_short Effect of Blade Profile on the Performance of Wells Turbine under Unidirectional Sinusoidal and Real Sea Flow Conditions
title_sort effect of blade profile on the performance of wells turbine under unidirectional sinusoidal and real sea flow conditions
url http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2007/51598
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