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Actuator Line Model for wind turbines

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    • February 22, 2023 at 9:41 am
      Waleed Ahmed
      Subscriber

      Hello,

      I want to model a wind turbine using an actuator line model. Can you guide me on how it can be done in Ansys? I'm aware of actuator disk modelling, but for my master thesis, I need to use the actuator line model.

      Thank you.

    • February 22, 2023 at 2:26 pm
      Rob
      Forum Moderator

      What's the difference between the two approaches?

    • February 22, 2023 at 2:59 pm
      Waleed Ahmed
      Subscriber

      In actuator line model, we consider blades of a turbine as line and apply lift and drag as source terms on the points.

    • February 22, 2023 at 4:10 pm
      Rob
      Forum Moderator

      OK, so rather than a disk you need some rows of cells. You'll need to look at source term UDFs, and then how to map the line onto the Fluent 2d/3d mesh. 

    • February 22, 2023 at 4:18 pm
      Waleed Ahmed
      Subscriber

      Yes, that's what's I need help with. How to do it?

    • February 22, 2023 at 4:28 pm
      Rob
      Forum Moderator

      I'd start with the UDF Manual. There's a reason we include some models for you to use: if you need something else it may need to be added. 

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