Blade-Tower interaction using panMARE

By: Israa Al-Esbe Supervisor Prof. Dr.-Ing. M. Abdel-Maksoud

Two Dimension Case

Aerofoil and cylinder case for 2-D, with many value of inflow velocity, reached the convergence value after 20 sec
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Three Dimension Case

Blade and cylinder case for 3-D, with many value of inflow velocity, reached the convergence value after 20 sec
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Rotation blade with tower

This case applied for many value of inflow velocity for blade and tower , and rotational speed for the blade , the result shows that, the solver ability need to improve spatially the wake panels enter the tower despite of using 30 implicit steps 4 in one explicit step as shown in figures

Modification plans
1. Boundary condition plan 2. Adding the viscosity effect
Boundary condition plane The plane base on the flow tangency condition on solid tower walls ,where the flow normal to the tower wall is equal to zero. The plan steps, Recognize the wake panel that inside the tower from all wake panels in every time step. Rotate the velocity vector for these panels toward outside the tower Update the coordinates for these panels to be outside the tower in every time step.

Example of Results

Adding the viscosity effect

In order to predict the unsteady rotor-tower interaction correctly, the viscous effect has to be included to damp out the highly distorted shed vortex around the tower surface. The Lamb-Oseen vortex model is adopted to decay the vortex. The mathematical model for the flow velocity in the circumferential direction in the Lamb-Oseen vortex is

where r is the radius, and M is circulation contained in the vortex. rc (t) is the core radius of the vortex and can be expressed a

2 2

= 4
where is the viscosity of the fluid. In order to simplify the problem, we assume the core radius of vortex is constant in this case. By integrating the velocity along constant radius r, the circulation can be expressed as:

= 2 , = 1

2 2
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Lets define L0 and L as the stretching ratio of the Lamb-Oseen vortex model. After the deformation of the vortex tube, the circulation contained in the same volume of fluid is: 2 = 2 2 2 = 1