Design and Analysis of Vortex Bladeless Wind Turbine

Title

Design and Analysis of Vortex Bladeless Wind Turbine

Creator

Francis S.; Umesh V.; Shivakumar S.

Description

Vortex bladeless turbine antiquates the conventional wind turbine and adopts a radically innovative and novel approach to captivate the moving wind energy. This device effectively captures the energy of vorticity, an aerodynamic instability condition. As the wind passes a structure, the flow steers and cyclical patterns of vortices are generated. Once the strength of wind force is suffice, the structure starts vibrating and reaches resonance. Vortex bladeless is a vortex induced vibration resonant power generator. It harnesses wind energy from a phenomenon of vorticity, called vortex shedding effect. Clearly bladeless technology consists of a cylinder fixed vertically on an elastic rod, instead of tower, nacelle and blades which are the crucial parts of a conventional wind turbine. The cylinder oscillates on a specifically mentioned wind range, which then generate electricity through an alternator and a tuning system. In this paper the vortex turbine is designed with certain existing parameters of dimensions in Solidworks and the same is analyzed for different materials and dimensions of mast, which is an important part in the vortex turbine. Also various performance parameters like displacement, frequency etc. are also compared among different models. 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Source

Materials Today: Proceedings, Vol-47, pp. 5584-5588.

Date

2021-01-01

Publisher

Elsevier Ltd

Subject

Analysis; Bladeless; Modeling; Turbine; Vortex

Coverage

Francis S., Department of Mechanical Engineering, Christ (Deemed to Be) University, Karnataka, Bengaluru, India; Umesh V., Department of Mechanical Engineering, Christ (Deemed to Be) University, Karnataka, Bengaluru, India; Shivakumar S., Department of Mechanical Engineering, Christ (Deemed to Be) University, Karnataka, Bengaluru, India

Rights

Restricted Access

Relation

ISSN: 22147853

Format

Online

Language

English

Type

Conference paper

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2021.03.469

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