CFD Simulation of Wind-Lens at Different Velocities

Authors

  • Ambika G  Department of Mechanical Engineering, VJIT, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
  • Manohar Lottla  Department of Mechanical Engineering, VJIT, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
  • Bharath Teja B  Department of Mechanical Engineering, VJIT, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
  • Anurag Cingireddy  Department of Mechanical Engineering, VJIT, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
  • Sampath Reddy N  Department of Mechanical Engineering, VJIT, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Keywords:

Wind Lens, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Brim.

Abstract

The current research is an attempt made to study a computational model of flow through wind-lens which can be used as efficient way of predicting the wind velocity variations at throat of wind-lens using computational fluid dynamic (CFD) software. The fluid flow simulations are obtained with the fluent software package of ANSYS. A way of analyzing the results and some of the outputs of the simulation along with analysis has been presented. The CFD simulations were performed on the computational model of a wind-lens (shroud with brim). The simulation aims to perform a CFD analysis on a wind-lens to accelerate wind using fluent solver. While performing the simulations, meshing techniques, preprocessing and post processing sections, the evaluation of simulations being learnt. Velocity magnitudes are recorded for various free stream wind velocities. These values were also compared by running different simulations with change of input parameters i.e free stream velocity.

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2017-04-30

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Volume 3, Issue 2, March-April-2017

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Ambika G, Manohar Lottla, Bharath Teja B, Anurag Cingireddy, Sampath Reddy N "CFD Simulation of Wind-Lens at Different Velocities" International Journal of Scientific Research in Science, Engineering and Technology (IJSRSET), Print ISSN : 2395-1990, Online ISSN : 2394-4099, Volume 3, Issue 2, pp.792-795, March-April-2017.