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Karen Ann J Mulleners

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Coherent Structure Interaction During Unsteady Separation

Karen Ann J Mulleners

Unsteady flow separation in rotationally augmented flow fields plays a significant role in the aerodynamic performance of industrial rotors, including wind turbines. Current computational models underestimate the aerodynamic loads due to the inaccurate pre ...

2019

Critical evolution of leading edge suction during dynamic stall

Karen Ann J Mulleners, Julien Dominique Claude Deparday

Dynamic stall dominates the aerodynamic performance, the robustness, and the wake dynamics of vertical axis wind turbines. To better assess the dynamic stall onset and its associated unsteady effects, this paper analyzes experimentally the evolution of the ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2018

Dynamic stall of an experimental wind turbine blade

Karen Ann J Mulleners

To understand the complex flow phenomena over wind turbine blades during stall development, a scaled three-dimensional non-rotating blade model is designed to be dynamically similar to a rotating full-scale NREL 5 MW wind turbine blade. A time-resolved par ...

Amer Inst Physics2016

Characterizing a burst leading-edge vortex on a rotating flat plate wing

Karen Ann J Mulleners

Identifying, characterizing, and tracking incoherent vortices in highly separated flows is of interest for the development of new low-order models for unsteady lift prediction. The current work examines several methods to identify vortex burst and characte ...

Springer2016

Refractive index matched particle image velocimetry (RIM-PIV) is an elegant method to measure velocity fields around complex geometries and in difficultly accessible areas. The accuracy of RIM-PIV is strongly affected by the quality of refractive index mat ...

2015

This work experimentally examines the phenomenon of leading-edge vortex (LEV) burst in a low aspect ratio rotating plate. Through stereoscopic particle image velocimetry (SPIV) about chrodwise planes, the evolutionary track of the vortex is detailed from i ...

2015

A low-Reynolds number rectilinear analog of the retreating-blade problem is considered by computationally and experimentally studying a NACA0012 blade in spanwise oscilla-tion in a free stream. Three-dimensional hybrid RANS-LES simulations with spanwise pe ...

2015

Roughened aeroengine blade surfaces lead to increased friction losses and reduced efficiency of the individual blades. The surface roughness also affects the wake flow of the blade and thus the inflow conditions for the subsequent compressor or turbine sta ...

2014

Passive cylindrical disturbance generators mounted near the leading edge of an airfoil significantly improved its performance under dynamic stall conditions. Time-resolved particle image velocimetry and simultaneous pressure measurements were conducted at ...

2013

Dynamic Stall Control by Passive Disturbance Generators

Karen Ann J Mulleners

2013