A review of progress and challenges in flap** foil power generation

J Young, JCS Lai, MF Platzer - Progress in aerospace sciences, 2014 - Elsevier
Power may be extracted from a flowing fluid in a variety of ways. Turbines using one or more
oscillating foils are under increasingly active investigation, as an alternative to rotary wind …

Darrieus wind turbine blade unsteady aerodynamics: a three-dimensional Navier-Stokes CFD assessment

F Balduzzi, J Drofelnik, A Bianchini, G Ferrara, L Ferrari… - Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
Energized by the recent rapid progress in high-performance computing and the growing
availability of large computational resources, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is offering …

Numerical simulation of a vertical axis wind turbine airfoil experiencing dynamic stall at high Reynolds numbers

B Hand, G Kelly, A Cashman - Computers & Fluids, 2017 - Elsevier
Multi-megawatt floating vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) are a promising solution to
exploit offshore wind energy resources in deep water sites. At this large-scale, the VAWT's …

Optimal operating parameters for an oscillating foil turbine at Reynolds number 500,000

T Kinsey, G Dumas - AIAA Journal, 2014 - arc.aiaa.org
The use of oscillating foils to develop turbines to extract energy from an oncoming flow has
recently been found competitive with rotor blade designs. Moreover, the rectangular …

Numerical investigation of hydrodynamic performance of flap** foils for energy harvesting

H Farooq, M Ghommem, MSU Khalid, I Akhtar - Ocean Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Micro-power generators are increasingly becoming popular to meet the power requirements
of micro-electromechanical systems, such as small sensors. One such resource of …

Investigation of the energy-extraction regime of a novel semi-passive flap**-foil turbine concept with a prescribed heave motion and a passive pitch motion

M Boudreau, K Gunther, G Dumas - Journal of Fluids and Structures, 2019 - Elsevier
Due to the inherent complexity of the mechanisms needed to prescribe the heave and the
pitch motions of optimal flap**-foil turbines, several research groups are now investigating …

Cross-comparative analysis of loads and power of pitching floating offshore wind turbine rotors using frequency-domain Navier-Stokes CFD and blade element …

A Ortolani, G Persico, J Drofelnik… - Journal of Physics …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Reliable predictions of the aero-and hydrodynamic loads acting on floating offshore wind
turbines are paramount for assessing fatigue life, designing load and power control systems …

Three-dimensional aerodynamic analysis of a Darrieus wind turbine blade using computational fluid dynamics and lifting line theory

F Balduzzi, D Marten, A Bianchini… - … for Gas Turbines …, 2018 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Due to the rapid progress in high-performance computing and the availability of increasingly
large computational resources, Navier–Stokes (NS) computational fluid dynamics (CFD) …

Wake effect on a semi-active flap** foil based energy harvester by a rotating foil

Y Chen, J Nan, J Wu - Computers & Fluids, 2018 - Elsevier
The wake effect on a semi-active flap** foil based energy harvester by a rotating foil is
numerically investigated in this work. A NACA0015 airfoil, which is placed in a two …

Low-speed preconditioning for strongly coupled integration of Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes equations and two-equation turbulence models

MS Campobasso, M Yan, A Bonfiglioli… - Aerospace Science and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Computational fluid dynamics codes using the density-based compressible flow formulation
of the Navier–Stokes equations have proven to be very successful for the analysis of high …