Assessment of Turbulence Models for Flow Simulation around a Wind Turbine Airfoil

<table class="table-group" width="800px"><tr class="fig-image" id="a"><td><img alt="714146.fig.008a" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/mse/volume-2011/714146/figures/714146.fig.008a.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(a) </b>Minimal mean</td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="b"><td><img alt="714146.fig.008b" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/mse/volume-2011/714146/figures/714146.fig.008b.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(b) </b>Maximal mean</td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<table>Relative mass imbalance contours.</table>

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Figure 8: Assessment of Turbulence Models for Flow Simulation around a Wind Turbine Airfoil 