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    Aerodynamic Optimization of a Swept Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine Blade
    (Asme, 2021) Kaya, Mehmet Numan; Kose, Faruk; Uzol, Oguz; Ingham, Derek; Ma, Lin; Pourkashanian, Mohamed
    The aerodynamic shapes of the blades are still of high importance and various aerodynamic designs have been developed in order to increase the amount of energy production. In this study, a swept horizontal axis wind turbine blade has been optimized to increase the aerodynamic efficiency using the computational fluid dynamics method. To illustrate the technique, a wind turbine with a rotor diameter of 0.94 m has been used as the baseline turbine, and the most appropriate swept blade design parameters, namely the sweep start-up section, tip displacement, and mode of the sweep have been investigated to obtain the maximum power coefficient at the design tip speed ratio. At this stage, a new equation that allows all three swept blade design parameters to be changed independently has been used to design swept blades, and the response surface method has been used to find out the optimum swept blade parameters. According to the results obtained, a significant increase of 4.28% in the power coefficient was achieved at the design tip speed ratio with the newly designed optimum swept wind turbine blade. Finally, baseline and optimum swept blades have been compared in terms of power coefficients at different tip speed ratios, force distributions, pressure distributions, and tip vortices.
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    Aerodynamic performance of a horizontal axis wind turbine with forward and backward swept blades
    (Elsevier Science Bv, 2018) Kaya, Mehmet Numan; Kose, Faruk; Ingham, Derek; Ma, Lin; Pourkashanian, Mohamed
    Blades are the most important components of wind turbines in order to convert wind energy to mechanical energy. This study investigates the aerodynamic performance of Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines (HAWTs) with forward and backward swept blades. The effect of the blade sweep direction, the location of the sweep start up and the tip offset on the aerodynamic performance are investigated using a model HAWT with a 0.9 m rotor as the baseline configuration. Changes in power and thrust coefficients with swept blades are investigated for the design tip speed ratio of the baseline wind turbine at a wind speed of 10 m/s. The wind turbine with the forward swept blade that has sweep start up at r(ss)/R = 0.15 and tip offset of d/D = 0.2 has been found to give a remarkable boost to the power output with an increase of about 2.9% over the baseline turbine. The backward swept blade with r(ss)/R = 0.75 and d/D = 0.2 has shown the highest reduction in thrust coefficient, namely 5.4%, at the design tip speed ratio. In conclusion, it is found that the forward swept blades have the ability of increasing the performance while the backward swept blades tend to decrease the thrust coefficient.