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Experimental Validation of Numerical Results of a Göttingen 188 Airfoil Wind Turbine for a 40° Blade Angle

1Laboratory of Electro-Mechanic Systems (LASEM), National School of Engineers of Sfax (ENIS), University of Sfax (US), B.P. 1173, Road Soukra, km 3.5, 3038 Sfax, TUNISIA

2University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742, USA


American Journal of Mechanical Engineering. 2015, Vol. 3 No. 3A, 22-26
DOI: 10.12691/ajme-3-3A-4
Copyright © 2015 Science and Education Publishing

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Zied Driss, Tarek Chelbi, Ahmed Kaffel, Mohamed Salah Abid. Experimental Validation of Numerical Results of a Göttingen 188 Airfoil Wind Turbine for a 40° Blade Angle. American Journal of Mechanical Engineering. 2015; 3(3A):22-26. doi: 10.12691/ajme-3-3A-4.

Correspondence to: Zied  Driss, Laboratory of Electro-Mechanic Systems (LASEM), National School of Engineers of Sfax (ENIS), University of Sfax (US), B.P. 1173, Road Soukra, km 3.5, 3038 Sfax, TUNISIA. Email: Zied.Driss@enis.rnu.tn

Abstract

In this paper, an experimental validation of numerical results of a Göttingen 188 airfoil wind turbine has been achieved. For thus, a detailed description of the used wind tunnel and the various manipulations performed with the mentioned turbine are presented. The experimental setup was developed to estimate the velocity profiles and the static torque for a wedging angle of the blade equal to β=40°. In these conditions, we have proved that the static torque presents the maximum value compared with the others tested wedging angles. Our goal is to characterize the aerodynamic structure and to validate the numerical results developed using Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) code.

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