CFD Investigation of the Performance of a Conventional Semi-circular Two Bladed SSWT

Document Type : Research articles

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Mechanical Power Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt.

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to make a numerical simulation of the previously reported experimental results  dealing with the performance of the conventional semi-circular two bladed SSWT based on the relationships between  torque coefficients and different tip speed ratios λ, to be in comparison with the CFD results. The present investigation  demonstrates absolute error growth of order ~ 0.01 within specified range of λ between CFD and the available experimental data.

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