Wind Turbine

PIV Measurements of Tip Vortex Wake Structure of a Wind Turbine
XIAO Jing Ping1,WU Jie2,CHEN Li2,SHI ZheYu²
1. College of Aeronautics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xian, China;
2. China Aerodynamics Research and Development Center, Mianyang, China

Experiment Setup:

Wake age angle of 0°

Wind Turbine Model:

Wake age angle of 60°
Result of tip vortex with nominal wind speed 12 m/ s subtracted from the data.
Vorticity result of tip vortex