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Simulating The Effects Of Floating Platforms, Tilted Rotors, And Breaking Waves For Offshore Wind Turbines, Hannah Johlas
Simulating The Effects Of Floating Platforms, Tilted Rotors, And Breaking Waves For Offshore Wind Turbines, Hannah Johlas
Doctoral Dissertations
Offshore wind energy is a rapidly expanding source of renewable energy worldwide, but many aspects of offshore wind turbine behavior are still poorly understood and are not accurately captured by low-cost engineering models used in the design process. To help improve these models, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) can provide valuable insight into the complex fluid flows that affect offshore wind turbine power generation and structural loads. This research uses CFD simulations to examine three main topics important to future offshore wind development: how breaking waves affect structural loads for fixed-bottom wind turbines; how platform motions affect power generation, wake characteristics, …
Numerical Modeling Of Advanced Propulsion Systems, Peetak P. Mitra
Numerical Modeling Of Advanced Propulsion Systems, Peetak P. Mitra
Doctoral Dissertations
Numerical modeling of advanced propulsion systems such as the Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) is of great interest to the community due to the magnitude of compute/algorithmic challenges. Fuel spray atomization, which determines the rate of fuel-air mixing, is a critical limiting process for the phenomena of combustion within ICEs. Fuel spray atomization has proven to be a formidable challenge for the state-of-the-art numerical models due to its highly transient, multi-scale, and multi-phase nature. Current models for primary atomization employ a high degree of empiricism in the form of model constants. This level of empiricism often reduces the art of predictive …