Now, I have investigated more, and I want to make the blades move, and animate it and so on. Obviously they were high due to the inlet velocity but nonetheless my numerical model was created. I have gotten my power factor values for this for various speeds. Now according to papers this is an acceptable assumption. But obviously since the mesh is stationary, nothing is moving except the fluid. I have read a few papers and some people have modeled for various application in such a manner that they created a rotating reference frame around the blades and modeled the blades (wall) as a rotating wall with 0 rad/s, but because it is adjacent to the reference frame it will rotate too theoretically. Now I created in my mesh a separate interior zone of fluid in a circle around the blades that has a finer mesh than the rest of the 2d model. My inlet velocity is at 25m/s(i know this is huge.but it's just a number i picked randomly to build the model). So I am basically trying to develop a chart of the power factor of a VAWT for different angular velocities. Unfortunately he does not have much experience with fluent but is a very intelligent and experienced person when it comes to the theory. I had a question about a project I am working on with a professor.
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