Torque of a Wind Turbine by SolidWorks Flow Simulation

assalamualaikum and welcome back to technology explorer my name is usman and today in this video i'm going to ask the solidworks um what would be the torque of this wind turbine if i throw air at the speed of 10 meters per second so keep watching this video till end and if you want to download these files for your practice i will leave the download link in the description of this video so now we have to turn on the flow simulation add-in so for that click on this solidworks add-ins button here if you uh did not see this solidworks add-in tab here right click somewhere here anywhere wherever you want to right click and then click on the tabs and in the tab you will see solidworks add-ins or you can also turn on solidworks simulation by click on on this arrow next to the setting button and from here select add-ins and scroll down and here is the solidworks flow simulation so uh from solidworks add-ins click on the solidworks flow simulation here it will take a while to turn on the solar box uh flow simulation so here if you can see it floats flow simulation tab is now turned on so let's save this assembly first assembly and then click on save button now um from the flow simulation click on desired option and then name the project of your flow simulation and then hit next so from here select unit system so we have pre-selected the si system international hit next and then as this flow simulation is going to be external so select external from here and of course this uh simulation will be time dependent and select the time of uh duration of the the of this simulation five seconds and then hit next from here um select your fluid type so we are going to apply air and for that expand the gases and from here double click on the air from here select humidity if you want to select or apply humidity as well then you can select then hit next hit next and so this is the initial condition of our fluid flow simulation so we are going to apply the velocity of 10 meters per second or from x direction x axis so for that velocity in the direction of x type here 1 0 and if you can see this arrow is showing that the velocity will be like this in the x axis and then hit finish so this is this box if you can see is the computational domain basically in this area our computer will do the flow simulation we have to make it reduced click on this computational domain here and then make it smaller like this what we are going to do simply we have but we are going to ask solar bars about our flow simulation so for that this goals option is here right click on this and then select insert global goals basically we are going to ask the solidworks what would be the torque of these blades if we throw air at the speed of 10 meters per second in this direction so as you can see the rotation of the torque will be along this x-axis so um from here scroll down and at the end you will see uh this torque torque and by torque and z so we are going to select torque in x direction and then press ok button one more thing which we also would like to know from solidworks is that what would be the force um on these spaces due to this air of 10 meter per second so as you you know this is the surface all these three are the surfaces so we have to apply or we have to add the surface goal right click on the goal again and from here select insert surface goals if you can see this box click on this box and then select all these three surfaces all these three surfaces and then scroll down basically when we know this force the force which is acting on these three blades uh if once we get the value of this force then we will add that value to our solidworks analysis to know uh the strength or the impact on these blades due to that force so i we will calculate whether uh these blades will break or not so uh scroll down from here and then search for force in the direction of x so click on this box or check this box force in the direct direction of x and then scroll up here if you can see um this option create goal for each surface so if you want to know the force on our on all these blades one by one you can check this box if you uncheck this box then it will tell you the overall or average force on all these three blades so leave it unchecked and then press ok button now we have applied our conditions and goals now we can run this simulation so click on this run button here and select new calculation and from here select run it will take some time to complete these simulations okay now you can see so server is finished now you can close this window and our results are ready to view so for that expand the results and from here right click on goal plots and select insert so as we have selected torque and ports so click on this select all and then select show so for the torque if you can see the value of the torque is this this is the average value this is the minimum value and this is the maximum value of the torque so you can take this average value to your calculations and then we have the surface goal and this is the [Music] average value of the force which is acting on these blades um in the direction of x-axis so this is 5.71 now um what we can do okay click on ok and [Music] next step is that we can see how air will move through these blades so for that we can uh make the float trajectories so right click on the flow trajectories and then select insert and then select this face and then from here select this option pick from screen then if you can see these two arrows click this arrow and drag it to the edge of this box computational domain now um now click on this arrow pick points and then start dropping the points these are basically the points from where uh the flow trajectories will start now um scroll down here if you can see the arrow it's up to you which type of float trajectories you want to see and then press ok button it will calculate and then you can see now in the float rise increase one right click on it and select play you can minimize the speed of this animation by play setting type here instead of five zero zero type here let's say three zero and press ok button so here you if you can see the speed of the arrows so this is how you can do the solidworks flow simulation to know the torque on a wind turbine due to the flow effect and as far as the factor of safety or the maximum strength of these blades is concerned i will do another video on this topic uh in solidworks simulation so uh thanks for watching and sparing your time i hope you have enjoyed and learned from this video

Channel: Technology Explore | Usman Chaudhary

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Length: 10min 4sec (604 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 20 2021