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jBAY Modeling of Vane-Type Vortex Generators and Study on Airfoil Aerodynamic Performance
(MDPI, 2020-05-12)
The increased demand for wind power is related to changes in the sizes of wind turbines and the development of flow control devices, such as vortex generators (VGs). In the present study, an analysis of the vortices generated ...
Battery Sizing Optimization in Power Smoothing Applications
(MDPI, 2022-01-19)
The main objective of this work was to determine the worth of installing an electrical battery in order to reduce peak power consumption. The importance of this question resides in the expensive terms of energy bills when ...
CNN-based flow control device modelling on aerodynamic airfoils
(Nature, 2022-06-17)
Wind energy has become an important source of electricity generation, with the aim of achieving a cleaner and more sustainable energy model. However, wind turbine performance improvement is required to compete with ...
Computational analysis of radiative heat transfer due to rotating tube in parabolic trough solar collectors with Darcy Forchheimer porous medium
(Elsevier, 2023-11)
This attempt numerically investigates the heat transfer in parabolic trough solar collectors due to the rotating tube for the hybrid nanofluid flow over the Riga surface with Darcy Forchheimer’s porous medium under the ...
CNN-based flow field prediction for bus aerodynamics analysis
(Nature, 2023-10)
The aim of this article is to evaluate the ability of a convolutional neural network (CNN) to predict velocity and pressure aerodynamic fields in heavy vehicles. For training and testing the developed CNN, various CFD ...
Computational Modelling of Rectangular Sub-Boundary Layer Vortex Generators
(MDPI, 2018-01-19)
Vortex generators (VGs) are increasingly used in the wind turbine manufacture industry as flow control devices to improve rotor blade aerodynamic performance. Nevertheless, VGs may produce excess residual drag in some ...
Computational Modelling of Three Different Sub-Boundary Layer Vortex Generators on a Flat Plate
(MDPI, 2018-11-10)
Flow separation is the source of several problems in a wind turbine including load fluctuations, lift losses, and vibrations. Vortex generators (VGs) are passive flow control devices used to delay flow separation, but their ...
Computational Characterization of a Rectangular Vortex Generator on a Flat Plate for Different Vane Heights and Angles
(MDPI, 2019-03-01)
Vortex generators (VG) are passive flow control devices used for avoiding or delaying the separation of the boundary layer by bringing momentum from the higher layers of the fluid towards the surface. The Vortex generator ...
A Parametric Study of Trailing Edge Flap Implementation on Three Different Airfoils Through an Artificial Neuronal Network
(MDPI, 2020-05-18)
Trailing edge flaps (TEFs) are high-lift devices that generate changes in the lift and drag coefficients of an airfoil. A large number of 2D simulations are performed in this study, in order to measure these changes in ...
Voltage and Overpotential Prediction of Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries with Artificial Neural Networks
(MDPI, 2024-01-09)
This article explores the novel application of a trained artificial neural network (ANN) in the prediction of vanadium redox flow battery behaviour and compares its performance with that of a two-dimensional numerical ...