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

Figure 5

Streamlines after the application of various turbulence models at 16^∘.

(a) SA model (separation at 𝑥/𝑐=0.52)

(b) RNG𝑘-𝜖 model (separation at 𝑥/𝑐=0.80)

(c) SST𝑘-𝜔 model (separation at 𝑥/𝑐=0.50)

(d) RSM model (separation at 𝑥/𝑐=0.88)