| Department-Institute-Centre: | |
| Name: | UPM – ETSIAE, School of Aeronautics in Madrid |
| Website: | http://www.etsiae.upm.es/index.html |
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| Department-Institute-Centre: | |
| Name: | UPM – ETSIAE, School of Aeronautics in Madrid |
| Website: | http://www.etsiae.upm.es/index.html |
| Research Area: | Information Science and Engineering (ENG) Mathematics (MAT) Physics (PHY) |
| Brief description of the Centre – Research Group: |
| It is one the better reputed Schools of Engineering in Spain and the oldest providing an Aeronautical degree. The school has high standards in research and teaching and provides a perfect environment to conduct novel research with high impact. |
| Project description: |
| Title: Characterisation of wind and tidal cross-flow turbine flows using high order numerical methods.
The present project is concerned with the characterisation of flow structures arising in rotating wind and tidal cross-flow turbines for energy generation. An existing high order (≥ 3) unstructured Discontinuous Galerkin – Fourier solver with sliding meshes [1-5] will be used to generate turbulent aerodynamic data that will be subsequently analysed using state of the art techniques (e.g. Proper Orthogonal Decomposition, Dynamic Mode Decomposition). In addition to individual turbines, the project will assess the interactions between turbines when located in energy farms. [1] E. Ferrer. A high order Discontinuous Galerkin – Fourier incompressible 3D Navier-Stokes solver with rotating sliding meshes for simulating cross-flow turbines. PhD thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. [2] E. Ferrer and R. H. J. Willden. A high order Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element solver for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. Computers & Fluids, 46(1):224–230, 2011. [3] E. Ferrer and R. H.J. Willden. A high order discontinuous Galerkin – Fourier incompressible 3D Navier-Stokes solver with rotating sliding meshes. Journal of Computational Physics, 231(21):7037–7056, 2012. [4] E. Ferrer, D. Moxey, R.H.J. Willden, and S. Sherwin. Stability of projection methods for incompressible flows using high order pressurevelocity pairs of same degree: Continuous and discontinuous galerkin formulations. Communications in Computational Physics, 16(3):817–840, 2014. [5] E Ferrer, RHJ Willden, “Blade-wake interactions in cross-flow turbines”, International Journal of Marine Energy, Vol 11, p71–83, 2015 |
