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    Development of Actuator Disk Method to Simulate Fluid-structure Interaction in Megawatt Wind Turbine Blade Analysis

    , Ph.D. Dissertation Sharif University of Technology Behrouzifar, Ali (Author) ; Darbandi, Masoud (Supervisor)
    Abstract
    Recent decades have seen a growing demand for high-power wind turbines resulting in turbines with larger blades and the advent of high-megawatt wind turbines. The blades of the megawatt-scale turbines experience more complicated flow phenomena compared to those of the smaller-scale wind turbines. Needless to say, the importance of an accurate solution and detailed analysis of all the parameters, including blades aerodynamic and aeroelastic performance as well as fluid-structure interaction, is more significant for the megawatt-scale turbines compared to smaller-scale turbines. The conventional methods of aerodynamic solutions for the blade, including analytical methods, such as BEMT78 and... 

    Aerothermodynamically Re-Design of an Air-Cool Heat Exchanger Fin Configuration Utilized for Cooling the Lubricating Oil of a Gas Turbine Unit Benefiting from Numerical Simulation

    , M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology Kargarian, Abbas (Author) ; Darbandi, Masoud (Co-Advisor)
    Abstract
    The lubricating oil is commonly used to cool down the moving parts of turbine gas systems. In many applications, this oil is cooled down using a recirculating water circuit. The water is then cooled down using an air-cooled heat exchanger. Any deficiency in aerothermodynamic design of such heat exchanger would result in high temperature of gas turbine moving parts such as bearings. Obviously, this mal-performance has adverse effect on the lifetime of these parts and their maintanence aspects. Since the good performance of air-cooled heat exchanger has numerous advantages for the performance of related gas turbine unit, it is mandatory to design these heat exchangers in minimum sizes and...