Automatic optimization of an airfoil for ocean current turbines

Rodríguez Rodríguez, Víctor

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Automatic optimization of an airfoil for ocean current turbines

dc.contributor.advisor	Roclawski, Harald
dc.contributor.advisor	Moscoso, Miguel
dc.contributor.author	Rodríguez Rodríguez, Víctor
dc.contributor.departamento	UC3M. Departamento de Ciencia e Ingeniería de Materiales e Ingeniería Química	es
dc.contributor.other	Technische Universität Kaiserslautern. Fachbereich Elektechnik und Informationstechnik
dc.date.accessioned	2013-03-22T18:52:31Z
dc.date.available	2013-03-22T18:52:31Z
dc.date.issued	2012-10
dc.date.submitted	2012-10-31
dc.description.abstract	In this study the kind of airfoil used is a variant from the commonly utilized ones, due to the conditions in which it will have to work. Instead of the usual applications where the fluid is air, in this case the airfoil must operate in water. The aim within the whole work is to optimize the airfoil shape. To be precise, optimizing means maximizing the aerodynamic force called lift on the airfoil. The lift to drag ratio will be another important control parameter during all the process. There is a specific shape given some certain boundary conditions and constraints that makes possible to obtain the maximum value of the lift. What has been done is, in short, starting from a C++ code already developed in charge of the airfoil geometry generation, adapt it so as to be able to manually introduce variations on the geometry. The geometry will be imported on ANSYS Workbench, properly meshed afterwards and then the problem will be solved on Fluent. The final step, i.e., the optimization, will be carried out by the Optimization Toolbox included in MATLAB. MATLAB is also the tool that commands all the process, calling subroutines and launching other programs from its DOS command.
dc.description.degree	Ingeniería Industrial
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10016/16571
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.rights	Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España
dc.rights.accessRights	open access
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/
dc.subject.eciencia	Ingeniería Industrial
dc.subject.other	Turbomaquinaria
dc.subject.other	Turbinas submarinas
dc.subject.other	Optimización automática
dc.title	Automatic optimization of an airfoil for ocean current turbines
dc.title.alternative	Optimización automática de perfil de álabe en turbinas submarinas
dc.type	master thesis	*
dspace.entity.type	Publication