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NHR Conference '24
The conference made for excellent research and exchange between HPC users and operators of the NHR centers. Come and join us this year, September 9-12, 2024 in Darmstadt. More info and registration: NHR Conference '24
You have completed your degree and you have a passion for high-performance computing then this might be of interest to you. Every year, our graduate school offers nine master's graduates with an excellent degree the opportunity to be supported by the NHR scholarship. Our call for applications starts soon! Further information will be available here!
Prof. Dr. Alois Peter Schaffarczyk, M.Sc. Brandon Arthur Lobo
Introduction:
The cost of energy produced by wind turbines has been undergoing a steady reduction. Wind energy supplied 15% of the electricity demand of the European Union in 2019. Since rotor blades are the determining component for both performance and loads, they are the objective of further optimizations. To obtain high efficiencies, an increased use of special aerodynamic profiles is observed possessing large areas of low-resistance, which means laminar flow is maintained. In order to design such profiles, it is necessary to include the laminar-turbulent transition in CFD simulations of wind turbine blades. Thus, the objective of the project is to carry out high-fidelity numerical simulations of the flow around a wind turbine blade at a realistic Reynolds number to get a deeper insight into this phenomenon and especially the transition process under different levels of the turbulence intensities of the approaching flow.
Institute / Institutes:
Professur für Strömungsmechanik (PfS), Institut für Mechanik