DESIGN, ANALYSIS AND TEST OF A VERTICAL AXIS WIND TURBINE

The Darrieus has a low starting torque, although has a high rotational speed. Its power output is higher than any drag-based VAWT. However the Darrieus VAWT has some disadvantages such as by not self-starting. Because of this reason, it has enough speed for wind passing across the airfoils starts to generate torque. The result of the Savonius Darrieus wind turbines designs shows an improvement in power generation efficiency. Savonius turbine type is an advantage to starting the Darrieus machine under a hybrid system which has the high starting torque of the drag.

GROUP MEMBERS Mesude Buse KIZIL hvan GL Emre KARAOSMANOLU Supervisor Yrd. Do. Dr. Nilay Sezer UZOL Do. Dr. Mehmet Ali GLER
Material Properties of Aluminum 6061-T6 Density Reference Temperature Youngs Modulus Poissons Ratio Tensile Ultimate Strength Tensile Yield Strength Compressive Yield Strength Compressive Ultimate Strength

CFD ANALYSIS
3-D CFD MESH

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS
Structural Meshing Pressure Values Taken From CFD Analysis 69000 Mpa 0.33 310 Mpa 276 Mpa 241.32 Mpa 10000 Pa CFD Computed Forces from CFD Results File -581. X-component 86 N 415. Y-component 03 N -12. Z-component 386 N Mechanical Mapped Forces for Mechanical Surface File -234. X-component 37 N 11661 Y-component N 28.391 N

2-D Boundary Conditions

Total Deformation 2

There are 97955 nodes elements in the Structurak Mesh 3-D mesh was done using ANSYS Mesh. The mesh can be seen on Fig.5.2.1. The distance between inlet and outlet is 10.5 meters. Distance between
3-D Pressure Distrubition CFD Results

Z-component Maximum Shear Stress Mesh was created using ANSYS mesh. It has 427524 nodes and 420049 elements in total. Test Results Turn Rate Air Flow Speed(m/s) (RPM) 55 56 5 51 80 6 82 84 97 97.5 7 99 Equivalent Stress CONCLUSION AND FUTURE WORK

symmetry faces is 7 meters. About 1,8 million cells were generated. minimum volume is 3.372528e-09 (m3) maximum volume is 2.086377e-02 (m3) and total volume is 7.660633e+02 (m3)

Frequency Values Mode Frequency [Hz] 1 2 3 4 5 6 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 9.6031 9.7778 28.739 45.629 45.695 46.055

2-D CFD Mesh View

The use of the ANSYS software products to analyze air flow around a vertical axis Pathlines colered by Particle ID wind turbine proved to be very effective tool in both 3-D and 2-D analysis. Wind speed of 15 m/s velocity were studied, also the NACA 0015 airfoil which used on external Darrieus part, showed a viable choice for VAWT design. Also because of the internal Savonius part, our design had self starting capacity. Static structural analysis also showed that wind turbine has enough strength to work in given air flow and rotation. Test results proven our asseveration about self starting capacity. Even an air flow 2-D mesh has about 500.00 cells and generated using ANSYS ICEM software. Near the blades we used smaller cells, to increase accuracy. which had 5 m/s velocity, it had a rotation about 50 rpm or more. After increasing air flow velocity, rotation speed increased as well. After increasing air flow velocity to 7 m/s rotational movement reached almost 100 rpm..