Airborne dust-induced performance degradation in NREL phase VI wind turbine: a numerical study

J Zare, SE Hosseini, MR Rastan - International Journal of Green …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The meteorological conditions markedly affect the energy efficiencies and cost/power rate of
the wind turbines. The dusty environment is common in arid windy areas and airborne …

The wake of a wall-mounted rectangular cylinder: Cross-sectional aspect ratio effect

MR Rastan, H Shahbazi, A Sohankar, MM Alam… - Journal of Wind …, 2021 - Elsevier
Large-eddy simulations are performed to study the wake of a wall-mounted finite-length
rectangular prism at a Reynolds number Re​=​ 1.2​×​ 10 4 for the prism aspect ratio AR …

Flow dynamics of a fluidic oscillator with internal geometry variations

X Wen, Z Li, L Zhou, C Yu, Z Muhammad, Y Liu… - Physics of …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
An experimental study is conducted to examine the impact of internal geometry of a fluidic
oscillator on its working mechanisms, ie, the widths of the inlet wedge W 1, mixing chamber …

Turbulent wake of two non-identical-height tandem cantilevered prims: Sheltering effect

F Freidooni, A Sohankar, MR Rastan - Ocean Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
The present work studies the flow sheltering effect over two tandem non-identical-height wall-
mounted square cylinders (buildings-like structures with aspect ratios of AR= 4 and 7) via …

Analysis of inflow conditions on the flow past a wall-mounted square cylinder with OpenFOAM

M Li, R Wang, X Guo, X Liu, L Wang - Computers & Fluids, 2024 - Elsevier
In this study, the flow mechanisms around wall-mounted structures was numerically
investigated using Large Eddy Simulation (LES). A comparison was made between the …

Flow field around two tandem non-identical-height square buildings via LES

F Freidooni, A Sohankar, MR Rastan, E Shirani - Building and Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Although the study of flow around buildings has a rich background, the development of
construction material, the congestion of buildings, the urban ventilation and consideration of …

An LES study of the wake flow dynamics and heat transfer characteristics of two side-by-side finite wall-mounted square cylinders

A Sohankar, AR Bahmani, MR Rastan - Ocean Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper studies the wake flow dynamics and heat transfer characteristics of two side-by-
side finite wall-mounted square cylinders through large-eddy simulations at Reynolds and …

NREL Phase VI wind turbine in the dusty environment

J Zare, SE Hosseini, MR Rastan - arxiv preprint arxiv:2304.06285, 2023 - arxiv.org
The meteorological conditions markedly affect the energy efficiencies and cost/power rate of
the wind turbines. This study numerically investigates the performance of the National …

Suppression of flow separation around a finite wall-mounted square cylinder by suction at the side leading edge

X **, M Dai, X Zou, S Laima - Physics of Fluids, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
We investigate the control of three-dimensional flow separation around a finite wall-mounted
square cylinder by applying suction at the side leading edge. Direct numerical simulations …

An experimental study on flow over two finite wall-mounted square cylinders in a staggered arrangement

J Aboueian, A Sohankar, MR Rastan, M Ghodrat - Ocean Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
Wind tunnel measurement is conducted over two finite wall-mounted square cylinders in a
staggered arrangement for various normalized cylinder distance (P*= P s/d, where d is the …