Abstract

Wind energy has received increasing attention in recent years due to its sustainability and geographically wide availability. The efficiency of wind energy utilisation highly depends on the performance of wind turbines, which convert the kinetic energy in wind into electrical energy. In order to optimise wind turbine performance and reduce the cost of next-generation wind turbines, it is crucial to have a view of the state of the art in the key aspects on the performance optimisation of wind turbines using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), which has attracted enormous interest in the development of next-generation wind turbines in recent years. This paper presents a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art progress on optimisation of wind turbine performance using CFD, reviewing the objective functions to judge the performance of wind turbine, CFD approaches applied in the simulation of wind turbines and optimisation algorithms for wind turbine performance. This paper has been written for both researchers new to this research area by summarising underlying theory whilst presenting a comprehensive review on the up-to-date studies, and experts in the field of study by collecting a comprehensive list of related references where the details of computational methods that have been employed lately can be obtained.

中文翻译：

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使用CFD优化风力涡轮机性能的最新技术

摘要

近年来，风能由于其可持续性和广泛的地理分布而受到越来越多的关注。风能利用的效率在很大程度上取决于风力涡轮机的性能，风力涡轮机将风中的动能转换为电能。为了优化风力涡轮机的性能并降低下一代风力涡轮机的成本，至关重要的是使用计算流体力学（CFD）来优化风力涡轮机性能的关键方面的最新技术，近年来，它对下一代风力涡轮机的开发引起了极大的兴趣。本文对使用CFD优化风力发电机性能的最新进展进行了全面回顾，回顾了用于判断风力涡轮机性能的目标函数，在风力涡轮机仿真中应用的CFD方法以及风力涡轮机性能的优化算法。本文既是针对本研究领域的新研究人员而写的，它总结了基础理论，同时提供了有关最新研究的全面综述，还为研究领域的专家撰写了相关参考文献的详细清单，其中可以获得最近采用的计算方法。