Ayman Mohamed Zaky Hussien  <br/><br/>
Aerodynamic design improvement of wind turbines  performance by boundary layer suction /  
 التصميم الأيروديناميكي لتحسين أداء توربينات الهواء عن طريق شفط الطبقة الجدارية 
Ayman Mohamed Zaky Hussien ; Supervised Essam E. Khalil Hassan Khalil  , Taher Aboudeif  , Ahmed Eldegwy  
 - Cairo :   Ayman Mohamed Zaky Hussien ,   2017 
 - 115 P. :   charts , facsimiles ;   30cm 
<br/><br/>Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Engineering- Department of Mechanical Power Engineering 
<br/><br/> Egypt has a potential of wind energy exceeds 20,000 MW in the uninhabited desert of the  Gulf of Suez area. This research aims to design a wind turbine with rated wind speed matches  the average wind speed along the Gulf of Suez area. The design process started with airfoil  selection using XFOIL software, then programming a MATLAB code based on the blade- element momentum theory for the 3-D design of the blade and calculation of the net output  power. ANSYS Fluent was used for more accurate results. Finally the boundary layer suction  concept was implemented for improvement of the blade aerodynamic performance  
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Aerodynamic performance  Blade-element momentum theory  Wind turbines