CFD Analysis of NREL Phase VI wind turbine

About this course

In this course, you will learn to conduct CFD analysis of NREL Phase VI wind turbine. You will learn every thing from scratch and using only basic data (NREL phase VI report, document number 29955.pdf) available on NREL website such as airfoil coordinates, twist angle and chord length along radial stations and torque values for different wind speeds. In this course you will use solidworks to create CAD model of NREL phase VI wind turbine, ANSYS Spaceclaim to create inner and outer domains, ICEMCFD for hybrid mesh for both domain and Fluent for solution and post processing. And finally you will compare present CFD results with experimental data provided by NREL. This is the horizontal axis wind turbine (HAWT) whose data is released by national renewable energy laboratory (NREL) and used extensively for CFD validation studies on wind turbines by researchers. In this course we are going to use the H-configuration of NREL phase VI wind turbine which has 3 deg tip pitch angle (also known as global pitch angle). We have used H-configuration because it is the most commonly used case by many researchers in CFD community in general and wind turbine community in particular. Therefore you can find plenty of CFD analysis data in research papers on this configuration which makes this course even more useful to large audience.  From using basic data available in report (mentioned above), you will follow following steps:CAD modeling in Solidworks (SW) by following following steps:Downloading s809 airfoil coordinates from website or using provided files in dat/txt or excel format (full procedure is given).Opening SW and making settings so that we can read airfoil coordinates in three dimensions (scan to 3D). Setting the preferred units for the wind turbine model.  Importing s809 airfoil coordinates into SW and creat