Currently it is difficult to determine wind speed or power output for a proposed wind turbine without on-site wind speed data and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis software. Our Major Qualifying Project is to compare the results from SolidWorks’s Flow Simulation package with data that was collected from an actual wind turbine test rig that was custom designed and manufactured. To do this, air was rotated through modeled wind turbine blades in the CFD simulations. On-site, an anemometer collected the local wind speeds while a free spinning wind turbine test rig measured the RPM. The local wind speed and RPM data was then compared to the predicted results from the CFD simulations.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• He, Harrison Y
• Moore, Charlotte Elizabeth
• Wallach, Theodore Chesler
• Hunt, Alan James

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-022018-191539

Advisor

• Hall, John R.
• Planchard, David C.

Year

• 2018

Date created

• 2018-02-20

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Mechanical Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2021-02-01