ARTÍCULO
TITULO

Development of a Computational Model for Investigation of and Oscillating Water Column Device with a Savonius Turbine

Amanda Lopes dos Santos    
Cristiano Fragassa    
Andrei Luís Garcia Santos    
Rodrigo Spotorno Vieira    
Luiz Alberto Oliveira Rocha    
José Manuel Paixão Conde    
Liércio André Isoldi and Elizaldo Domingues dos Santos    

Resumen

The present work aims to develop a computational model investigating turbulent flows in a problem that simulates an oscillating water column device (OWC) considering a Savonius turbine in the air duct region. Incompressible, two-dimensional, unsteady, and turbulent flows were considered for three different configurations: (1) free turbine inserted in a long and large channel for verification/validation of the model, (2) an enclosure domain that mimics an OWC device with a constant velocity at its inlet, and (3) the same domain as that in Case 2 with sinusoidal velocity imposed at the inlet. A dynamic rotational mesh in the turbine region was imposed. Time-averaged equations of the conservation of mass and balance of momentum with the k?? Shear Stress Transport (SST) model for turbulence closure were solved with the finite volume method. The developed model led to promising results, predicting similar time?spatial-averaged power coefficients (CP¯" role="presentation">??????????????CP¯ C P ¯ ) as those obtained in the literature for different magnitudes of the tip speed ratio (0.75 = ? = 2.00). The simulation of the enclosure domain increased CP¯" role="presentation">??????????????CP¯ C P ¯ for all studied values of ? in comparison with a free turbine (Case 1). The imposition of sinusoidal velocity (Case 3) led to a similar performance as that obtained for constant velocity (Case 2).

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