Research Article

Unsteady Flow and Vibration Analysis of the Horizontal-Axis Wind Turbine Blade under the Fluid-Structure Interaction

Table 2

The grid-independent validation of the fluid domain and structural domain.

ItemCell face size at the blade surface
0.2 m0.3 m0.5 m
Cell face size at the rotated domain
0.5 m1 m2 m

Total number of elements5,231,4042,016,6841,155,913
Rotor power1.5074 kW1.5109 kW1.4809 kW
Relative error (%)0.490.731.27