The depletion of fossil fuels and the worsening environment motivate engineers and researchers to explore renewable energy resources. One of the promising renewable energy is wind energy. The wind turbine extracts wind energy to generate electricity. This study aims to modify a wind turbine blade using Clark Y foil to improve the lift force. The modification is employed by forming a winglet profile with a 30° angle on the foils tip. The result shows that the 30° winglet enlarges the lift coefficient to 1.3253 from 1.2795 of the original blade lift coefficient.
The wind energy is one of the renewable energy which is extracted the most amongst other resources. However, the performance still required to be improved by modifying the wind turbine blade. In this study, the modification is employed at the tip of the blade using 30° winglet. The aim of this paper is to investigate numerically the lift of force of the modified Clark Y foil in various pitch angles and predict the pitch angle at which the maximum lift is found to be maximum. There are five pitch angle variations, and they are 0°, 12°, 22°, 32°, and 42°. 3D CFD models are used using OpenFOAM 8. From the results, it can be seen that the maximum lift force was achieved at the pitch angle variation of 32° with the value of 1.245 and the maximum drag force was achieved at the pitch angle variation of 22° with the value of 1.325. While the maximum C
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