The VAWT: Wind Turbine Advanced Level Training Package is MR CFD’s research-grade collection for vertical axis wind turbine simulation in ANSYS Fluent, with 5 hands-on projects. It is built for engineers and researchers who already know how to set up a rotating-turbine simulation and want to compare designs and validate their results against published work.

Design comparison: Compare a serrated airfoil and a plain airfoil on a Darrieus turbine in a transient 3-D simulation, using the mesh motion model for the blade rotation. Simulate a Gorlov turbine with the sliding mesh model, from redesigning the geometry in SpaceClaim to meshing and setup.

Performance across operating conditions: Study a helical blade turbine across 5 different rotational speeds, and analyze the tip speed ratio (TSR) with a polyhedral mesh and mesh motion.

Paper validation: Validate a 3-D vertical axis wind turbine against a reference article, then validate a 2-D Darrieus turbine against a published paper by comparing its power coefficient, using the sliding mesh model.

What’s included:

• 5 step-by-step ANSYS Fluent projects, including two paper-validation cases

• Over 1 hour of video lessons

• English audio with subtitles in English, Spanish, Arabic, Turkish, French, and Portuguese

• Advanced setups that build on beginner VAWT modeling

• Backed by 15 years of MR CFD simulation expertise

Whether you’re preparing a journal paper, comparing turbine designs, or building advanced in-house CFD capability, this package gives you a structured path to validated vertical axis wind turbine simulation.