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.
| Item | Cell face size at the blade surface | 0.2 m | 0.3 m | 0.5 m | Cell face size at the rotated domain | 0.5 m | 1 m | 2 m |
| Total number of elements | 5,231,404 | 2,016,684 | 1,155,913 | Rotor power | 1.5074 kW | 1.5109 kW | 1.4809 kW | Relative error (%) | 0.49 | 0.73 | 1.27 |
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