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UNH-CORE / RM2-tow-tank-results-paper

Paper describing the results from the 1:6 scale RM2 tow tank experiment at UNH.
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Revise introduction #30

Closed petebachant closed 8 years ago

petebachant commented 8 years ago

From @bgunawan:

I’d suggest to revise the intro section, so that the main goal of the paper is to conduct a scaled testing for (1) understanding the physics around VAWT and(2) provide datasets for numerical model validation. I don’t see the necessity to say much about Cactus, especially since we don’t do model Vs measurement comparison. Perhaps paragraph 1 in the intro section can be revised to something more general, on the needs to understand MHK turbines and collect data for numerical model validation?

petebachant commented 8 years ago

We could definitely highlight the lack of open datasets. I also agree that this is a general validation dataset; not just one for CACTUS.

petebachant commented 8 years ago

Should also highlight the difficulty of predicting CFT performance, which necessitates as many high quality datasets as possible, to prevent biasing or tuning models to a single turbine. One good example is the ubiquitous use of some of the old Sandia Darrieus turbine datasets. This seems to be an "easy" turbine to model thanks to its very low solidity, relative non-importance of dynamic stall, lack of end effects, etc.

petebachant commented 8 years ago

Should also see if there is any data out there for a tapered-straight-bladed VAT.

wosnik commented 8 years ago

It would be good to have some information and references for existing VAT validation data sets.

petebachant commented 8 years ago

I did add this as a table and I think it puts a good perspective on things: https://github.com/UNH-CORE/RM2-tow-tank-results-paper/blob/master/paper.tex#L332

wosnik commented 8 years ago

Nice.