Moving Meshes or Rotating Refrence frame is suitable for Rotating Blades?

arash_7444 · October 27, 2010, 14:16

Dear all,

could you tell me if i want to rotate 2 blades of wind turbine in 1 zone which solution is appropriate? Rotating Reference frame or Sliding meshes (Moving meshes)

I attached a schematic of my blades and domain

Thanks a lot in advance.

yagizb · March 19, 2011, 03:49

you can use both of them,
but i can recommend single rotating reference frame,
it makes the problem easy,

Atze · March 20, 2011, 11:52

I suggest you to use Moving Mesh method and solve the unsteady problem. Solution with rotating reference frame is a steady one, so depends by the position of your blades

Rich1979 · March 21, 2011, 02:07

For my thesis on a Savonius VAWT i used sliding mesh for 2d and 3d simulations and the results were very good.Sliding mesh is also very simple to use.Regards.

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March 19, 2011, 03:49		#2
yagizb New Member yagizb Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 7 Rep Power: 15	you can use both of them, but i can recommend single rotating reference frame, it makes the problem easy,

March 20, 2011, 11:52		#3
Atze Member Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Pisa / Italy Posts: 62 Rep Power: 16	I suggest you to use Moving Mesh method and solve the unsteady problem. Solution with rotating reference frame is a steady one, so depends by the position of your blades

March 21, 2011, 02:07		#4
Rich1979 Member Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 41 Rep Power: 17	For my thesis on a Savonius VAWT i used sliding mesh for 2d and 3d simulations and the results were very good.Sliding mesh is also very simple to use.Regards.