Articles | Volume 4, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-4-369-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-4-369-2019
Research article
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28 Jun 2019
Research article |  | 28 Jun 2019

A vortex-based tip/smearing correction for the actuator line

Alexander R. Meyer Forsting, Georg Raimund Pirrung, and Néstor Ramos-García

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Actuator-Line-Smearing-Correction A. R. Meyer Forsting, G. Pirrung, N. Ramos-García, and A. Li https://doi.org/10.11583/DTU.9752285.v1

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The actuator line was intended as a lifting line technique for CFD applications. In this paper we prove – theoretically and practically – that smearing the forces of the actuator line in the flow domain leads to smeared velocity fields. By combining a near-wake representation of the trailed vorticity with a viscous vortex core model, the missing induction from the smeared velocity is recovered and a lifting line for CFD simulations established.
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