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T1 Automatic optimization of an airfoil for ocean current turbines
T2 Optimización automática de perfil de álabe en turbinas submarinas
A1 Rodríguez Rodríguez, Víctor
A2 Technische Universität Kaiserslautern. Fachbereich Elektechnik und Informationstechnik, 
AB In this study the kind of airfoil used is a variant from the commonly utilizedones, due to the conditions in which it will have to work. Instead of the usualapplications 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 beprecise, optimizing means maximizing the aerodynamic force called lift on theairfoil. The lift to drag ratio will be another important control parameter during allthe process. There is a specific shape given some certain boundary conditions andconstraints that makes possible to obtain the maximum value of the lift. What has been done is, in short, starting from a C++ code alreadydeveloped in charge of the airfoil geometry generation, adapt it so as to be able tomanually introduce variations on the geometry. The geometry will be imported onANSYS Workbench, properly meshed afterwards and then the problem will besolved on Fluent.The final step, i.e., the optimization, will be carried out by the OptimizationToolbox included in MATLAB. MATLAB is also the tool that commands all theprocess, calling subroutines and launching other programs from its DOS command.
YR 2012
FD 2012-10
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10016/16571
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10016/16571
LA eng
DS e-Archivo
RD 28 abr. 2024