Abstract:
Today, energy consumption is much more than energy production. Gone are the days when energy can be produced by carbon emission methods. Researchers have been studying energy harvesting from wind turbines for more than a century, from traditional turbines to the most cutting-edge bladeless turbines. In this project, we designed and optimized a vortex-induced vibrations bladeless wind turbine (BWT). The Vortex bladeless turbine outperforms the traditional wind turbine by taking a completely unique and revolutionary technique to capture wind energy. This device successfully collects the energy of vorticity which is a state of aerodynamic instability. When the wind force is sufficient, the structure begins to vibrate and reaches resonance. It captures wind energy from vorticity phenomena known as the vortex shedding effect. Clearly, bladeless technology consists of a cylinder mounted vertically on an elastic rod, rather than the tower, nacelle and blades which proved to be the essential components of a traditional wind turbine. One of the most essential challenges is to optimize and anticipate produced power, which is one of the most important concerns due to the novelty of this discipline and the extensive investigations across the world. The fluid-solid interactions (FSI) were examined to create a dataset for forecasting techniques in order to improve the generated output electrical power of VBT.
