CFD Simulations for Airfoil Polars

Investigating 3-D Flow Characteristics of Wind Turbine Airfoils using Delayed Detached Eddy Simulations at High Reynolds Numbers

“…The detailed literature review of the CFD analyses for wind turbine airfoil aerodynamics predictions are presented previously by Sezer-Uzol, et al [1], by discussing the solution approaches, grid generations, turbulence models, and transition models. From computationally very expensive but accurate Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) to efficient but not so accurate Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulations, with the advancements in the computational power and numerical algorithms, Large Eddy Simulations (LES) and hybrid RANS/LES and Detached Eddy Simulation (DES) simulations now can be used for prediction of flow fields around airfoils, especially for high Reynolds numbers.…”