Abstract

Ducted Wind Turbines are a potential technological solution to increase wind energy production in urban environment, where the presence of buildings disturbs the flow uniformity resulting in lower wind speed with larger turbulent fluctuations. Since they are installed close to urban areas, they are subject to noise regulations, then an aeroacoustics study is necessary. 

In this presentation, the aerodynamic and the aeroacoustics fields of Ducted Wind Turbines with different duct geometries and operating under different inflow conditions and angles of attack are investigated using the PowerFLOW solver.

Presenter Bio

Francesco Avallone is Assistant Professor at the AWEP Department, Wind Energy Section, at Delft University of Technology. He received both his MSc and PhD degrees from the University of Naples Federico II. In 2015, he joined Delft University of Technology as PostDoc in Aeroacoustics. During this period, he worked on turbulent boundary layer trailing edge noise mitigation with innovative trailing edge serrations. Since July 2017, he is Assistant Professor. His research interests are airfoil self-noise, acoustic liners and jet installation noise. For his research he uses both experimental and computational techniques.

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