International Journal of Nonlinear Analysis and Applications

Numerical study of the effect of weather parameters on corona discharge performance in a horizontal axis wind turbine

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Aerospace Engineering, Faculty of Kish International Campus, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

2 Mechanical Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

3 Mechanical Engineering, Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea

Abstract

In this paper, we present a numerical simulation for integrating active load control using corona discharge-based plasma actuators on the trailing edge of a wind turbine blade. Eulerian simulation is done on a 660 kW wind turbine blade with NACA 0012 profile. The electrohydrodynamic incompressible flow created between two electrodes using the combination of the EHDFoam solver with the BoyantPimpleFoam solver is carried out in the free and open-access OpenFOAM software. The results have been validated using numerical and experimental work. The effects of environmental parameters such as temperature, relative humidity and environmental pressure on the corona discharge process have been investigated. The results of this research showed that with the increase in temperature, humidity and pressure, the discharge process is decreased. The results show a 62% and 35% decrease in the average transfer momentum with an increase in relative humidity and temperature, respectively.

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International Journal of Nonlinear Analysis and Applications
Volume 14, Issue 12
December 2023
Pages 187-196
  • Receive Date: 13 November 2021
  • Revise Date: 15 January 2022
  • Accept Date: 06 February 2022