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    CFD Analysis of A 3-Bladed NACA 0018 Vertical Axis Wind Turbine for Deployment in Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria
    (FETiCON, 2023-06-05) Olayemi Adebayo Olalekan; Ajide Favour Tomisin; Ibitoye Emmanuel Segun; Obalalu Martins Adebowale; Jinadu Abdulbaqi; Anyaegbuna Elochukwu Benjamin
    During the last few years, vertical axis wind tubines have evolved as a suitable supplement to energy production worldwide. There has been a lot of interest in vertical axis wind turbines as a small-scale renewable power converter because they can be used in places where the wind speeds are turbulent or unsteady. When investigating the aerodynamic characteristics of vertical axis wind turbines, computational fluid dynamics has been shown to be one of the most effective methods. There is a need for better knowledge of the factors that influence the accuracy of computational fluid dynamics. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the influence of these factors on the simulation of a low-speed turbine to guide the execution of accurate computational fluid dynamics simulations of vertical axis wind turbines at varying tip speed ratios and solidities. To simulate the turbulent, unstable fluid flow around the turbine, we used a 2D SIMPLE approach with the help of ANSYS FLUENT. In the study, it was found that when the tip speed ratio is low, the result is largely dependent on the azimuthal increment, and a fine azimuthal increment of 0.1 is usually better for low tip speed ratios
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    Parametric studies of mixed convective fluid flow around cylinders of different cross‐sections
    (Wiley, 2023-05-22) Olayemi Adebayo Olalekan; Ibitoye Emmanuel Segun; Obalalu Adebowale Martins; Al-Farhany Khaled; Jolayemi Samsudeen Temidayo; Jinadu Abdulbaqi; Ajide Favour Tomisin; Adegun Kayode Isaac
    A numerical study of mixed convective heat transfer in a lid‐driven square enclosure containing a hot elliptic cylinder is conducted. The impacts of the Grashof number (103 ≤ Gr ≤ 106), Reynolds number (1.0 ≤ Re ≤100), cylinder tilt angle (0° ≤ ϕ ≤ 90°), and aspect ratio (1.0 ≤ AR ≤ 3.0) have been examined for a fluid of Pr of 0.71. The horizontal enclosure walls are insulated, while its vertical walls are restricted to a nonvarying temperature Tc, whereas a sinusoidal temperature of Th + ∆T sin(πxL/ ) is imposed on the wall of the elliptical cylinder. The governing equations are solved using COMSOL Multiphysics 5.6 software. The fluid dynamic and the heat transport profiles between the enclosure and the elliptical cylinder walls are represented by the stream function, isothermal contours, and average Nusselt number. Results estab­lished that for all the considered aspect ratios, the thermal heating range of 103 ≤ Gr ≤ 104 is predomi­nantly a conduction mechanism. The critical position of the ellipse where the inclination effect becomes insignificant is determined by the Grashof number and aspect ratio when the Re = 100. The strength of vortices and cell numbers are significantly influenced by the aspect ratio, particularly when the Gr =104 . When AR =1.0, the average heat transfer from the cylinder remains the same regardless of the cylinder's orienta­tion. The impact of cylinder orientation on heat transfer from the cylinder wall is minimal for 1.5 ≤ AR ≤ 2.0. For AR values of 2.5 ≤ AR ≤ 3.0, increasing the inclination angle does not result in improved heat transfer. The influence of the increasing inclination angle on the right wall diminishes as the angle increases, except when the Grashof number is greater than 105, where the rate of heat transfer is enhanced for inclination angles beyond 45°.