Mastering Hybrid Meshing for Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines

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Your Presenters
Dr. Chris Sideroff Mr. Travis Carrigan Dr. Rick Matus

Chris joined Pointwise in September 2007 as a technical sales engineer. He earned a B.S. and M.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Alberta and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Syracuse University in 2009. Chris has prior industrial experience with the NATCO Group, ARV Development and Harddata Ltd.

Travis works alongside Chris as a technical sales engineer. He completed his M.S. in aerospace engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington in May 2011, where his thesis subject was "Aerodynamic Shape Optimization of a Vertical Axis Wind Turbine." He received his B.S. in aerospace engineering in 2009 from UTA.

Rick is Pointwise's vice president for sales and marketing. He earned both a B.S. and an M.S. in aerospace engineering from Texas A&M University in 1980 and 1981, respectively, and a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington in 1986. Prior to Pointwise, Rick worked for Fluent, Inc. and General Dynamics.

Mastering Hybrid Meshing of Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines

Chris Sideroff, PhD, Travis Carrigan and Rick Matus, PhD

Sandia CX-100

9 m radius Sharp TE; no flat back Cut-off tip http://windpower.sandia.gov

Background
HAWT generate power through lift Efficient designs have low drag Aero drag is created in two regions: BL and wake Resolving the BL and wake accurately are key How do I create a mesh that achieves this?

Mesh Topology
Structured Unstructured

very high fidelity very time intensive

very little time low fidelity

Point Efficiency
For a given # points, hex cells are more efficient 5381 points 5200 cells

6136 points 11,910 cells

Grid alignment
Body fitted structured meshes are more accurate

Grid Alignment
Less truncation error when faces aligned with flow gradients

Hybrid Topologies
When can I get away without using structured meshes?

My boss told me I can only spend 1 day meshing When the flow path is unknown or changes rapidly, structured meshes lose their benefit Unstructured meshes provide more flexible resolution control, i.e. localized clustering Hybrid meshes are a good compromise between effort and accuracy
Prism/hex in important regions (BLs, wakes, shocks, freesurface) Unstructured elsewhere

Accuracy

Multi-block Structured Hybrid: Hex/Prism + Tet Overset Structured Cartesian Unstructured

Ease of Use
Credit: Tim Baker, Mesh generation: Art or Science?, Progress in Aerospace Sciences 2005

Thank you for attending!

On Thursday, 14 July 2011, you will find the grid files and geometries used in this webinar as well as the recorded video of the webinar on our web site at www.pointwise.com/webinar. If you have additional questions, please contact Chris or Travis. Email: sales@pointwise.com Call: 817-377-2807

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