Literature Survey Tidal turbine FSI

Hassan El Sheshtawy

Jan 2015

Start

IcoFoam

StressedFoamNew fluid mesh

End Time

stop

The pressure data

Mesh deformation

No

Yes

SimpleFsiSolverPros Cons1- Simple solver and flexible 1- It does not work for parallel

2- Solve for turbulent flow 2- Dose not support periodic (Cyclic)boundaries (wast power in comput-ing)

3- use different mesh for solid andfluid

I. Wake effects in tidal current turbine farms

A. CFD modelling

I. Introduction to FSI in OpenFoam

A. IcoFSIFoamIt is weakly coupled system with small structural deformationand laminar fluid flow. It is composed of two solvers one forfluid flow (IcoFoam) and the other for stress analysis (StressedFoam). 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 tur-bine 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