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Phase 1: Draw Cad

Phase 2: Perform Flow simulation
Phase 3: Please optimize your wind turbine based on the range of air velocity (from 4 miles/hr
to 12 miles/hr) with respect to airfoil shapes (if your design has airfoil), angle of attack,
number of blades, length of blades (diameter of rotor blade part should be less than 2
m) etc.
the axis of rotation of the wind turbine rotor has to go through the origin of the
SolidWorks model you are using and be along one of the axes (x, y or z). Then you can
measure torque about the selected axis of rotation (x, y or z) defining surface goals on
the rotor blades with torque about that axis (x, y or z).
Phase 4: This document gives you instruction about how to include rotation in the rotor of the
wind turbine. Please include rotational speed in the rotor of your wind turbine design
and re-run the flow simulation. Please submit your Solid Works model files and results in
a flash drive on Thursday (March 13) next week. At different rotational speeds you will
get different torques about the axis of rotation and thereby powers. A power vs.
rotational speed curve can be plotted from this study. A power vs. time curve can also
be plotted using kinematic relations.
Phase 5: Please use rotational velocities in the rotor in sequence e.g. 0, 5, 10, 20 rads/sec etc.,
and calculate torque and power. Please do not jump to high rotational velocities as they
may not be even probable in the wind turbine in the wind speed range 4 - 12 miles/hr
unless you are using the kinematic relation, and tracking the time and rotational speeds.
Phase 6: Please calculate the force components in x, y and z directions using flow simulations
on your wind turbine models and then calculate stress, strain and factors of safety using
those force components and finite element analysis on the entire wind turbine
structure. Your minimum factor of safety should be from 7 to 15. If your min factor of
safety is out of that range please modify your wind turbine design and recalculate for
optimization. As your structure will change because of that you will have a new mass
moment of inertia which will affect your power calculation.
Phase 7: As you are performing flow simulations you will have to double the cell numbers in all
directions and make sure the results are not changing (simple convergence test). As you
are also performing finite element analysis, you will have to draw convergence curves to
show converged results.
Phase 8: First of all, please write your names in a file when you are submitting your project
works to me. At this point please get ready for the final presentation to be held on
April 22 or 24.