Literature Survey Tidal turbine FSI

Hassan El Sheshtawy
Jan 2015

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IcoFoam
The pressure data
Stressed
Foam

New fluid mesh

Mesh deformation

No

End Time

Yes
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Pros
1- Simple solver and flexible

SimpleFsiSolver
Cons
1- It does not work for parallel

2- Solve for turbulent flow

2- Dose not support periodic (Cyclic)

boundaries (wast power in computing)

3- use different mesh for solid and

fluid
I. Wake effects in tidal current turbine farms
A. CFD modelling

I. Introduction to FSI in OpenFoam

A. IcoFSIFoam
It is weakly coupled system with small structural deformation
and laminar fluid flow. It is composed of two solvers one for
fluid flow (IcoFoam) and the other for stress analysis (Stressed
Foam). and it is work as in the flow chart.

Figure 1: The Tidal turbine domain ref.

II. Full-scale Testing of Tidal Energy Converter Using a Tug Boat
A. The aim of work
B. The SCHOTTEL tidal turbine STG 50
C. The Computational domain and Boundary conditions

III. Computation of Inflow Turbulence Noise of a Tidal Turbine

Figure 2: Tetrahededral mesh with non-conformal interface of tidal turbine ref.

A. The Work
B. The Tidal turbine domain
C. Meshing
1.6 106 .
D. The boundary conditions
E. The solution setting

IV. The tidal turbine modeling

A. The geometry
B. The modelling domians

Figure 3: SCHOTTEL Tidal generator STG 50.

Figure 4: The tidal turbine complete geometry

Figure 5: The tidal turbine and the cylinderical shap