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Boundary layer stability on a rotating wind turbine blade section
KTH, School of Engineering Sciences (SCI), Centres, Linné Flow Center, FLOW. KTH, Centres, SeRC - Swedish e-Science Research Centre. KTH, School of Engineering Sciences (SCI), Engineering Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics and Engineering Acoustics, Fluid Physics.ORCID iD: 0009-0007-8056-6109
KTH, School of Engineering Sciences (SCI), Centres, Linné Flow Center, FLOW. KTH, Centres, SeRC - Swedish e-Science Research Centre. KTH, School of Engineering Sciences (SCI), Engineering Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics and Engineering Acoustics, Fluid Physics.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7864-3071
KTH, School of Engineering Sciences (SCI), Centres, Linné Flow Center, FLOW. KTH, Centres, SeRC - Swedish e-Science Research Centre. KTH, School of Engineering Sciences (SCI), Engineering Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics and Engineering Acoustics, Fluid Physics.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5913-5431
2024 (English)In: Physics of fluids, ISSN 1070-6631, E-ISSN 1089-7666, Vol. 36, no 9, article id 094128Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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Wall-resolved large eddy simulations of the flow on a rotating wind turbine blade section are conducted to study the rotation effects on laminar-turbulent transition on the suction surface. A chord Reynolds number of 1x10(5) and angles of attack (AoA) of 12.8 degrees, 4.2 degrees, and 1.2 degrees are considered. Simulations with and without rotation are performed for each AoA. For AoA=12.8 degrees, rotation increases the reverse flow from 7% of the free-stream velocity in the non-rotating case to 16% of it in the rotating case in the laminar separation bubble (LSB), triggering an oblique instability mechanism in the latter, leading to a faster breakdown to small-scale turbulence. However, rotation delays transition and reattachment in 3%-4% of the chord due to the acceleration of the boundary layer upstream of the LSB, which is subject to a strong adverse pressure gradient (APG), stabilizing Tollmien-Schlichting (TS) waves. Regarding AoA=4.2 degrees and 1.2 degrees, rotation slightly decelerates the attached boundary layer since the APG is very mild but accelerates the separated flow downstream, stabilizing Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) modes. This mitigates the oblique instability mechanism and slows down the breakdown of KH vortices in the rotating case. In these cases, the transition location is little affected by rotation, possibly due to a rotation-independent absolute instability. Rotation also generates a spanwise tip-flow in the LSB for AoA=4.2 degrees and 1.2 degrees, which is highly unstable and triggers stationary and traveling crossflow modes. Nevertheless, the amplitudes of these modes remain too low to trigger transition.

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AIP Publishing , 2024. Vol. 36, no 9, article id 094128
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-354749DOI: 10.1063/5.0223207ISI: 001321227600011OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-354749DiVA, id: diva2:1905187
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