Margraves, C. H., & SREENIVAS, K., & Elliott, T. S., & Rose, L. I. (2025, March), Relating Kinetic Energy Changes to Power Generation in a Mechanical Engineering Wind Turbine Lab  Paper presented at 2025 ASEE Southeast Conference , Mississippi State University, Mississippi. 10.18260/1-2--54190

\bibitem{asee_peer_54190}
  Margraves, C. H., \& SREENIVAS, K., \& Elliott, T. S., \& Rose, L. I. (2025, March), \emph{Relating Kinetic Energy Changes to Power Generation in a Mechanical Engineering Wind Turbine Lab}
  Paper presented at 2025 ASEE Southeast Conference , Mississippi State University, Mississippi.
  10.18260/1-2--54190

Chuck H. Margraves, KIDAMBI SREENIVAS, Trevor S. Elliott, and Lance Isaac Rose.  "Relating Kinetic Energy Changes to Power Generation in a Mechanical Engineering Wind Turbine Lab".  2025 ASEE Southeast Conference , Mississippi State University, Mississippi, 2025, March.  ASEE Conferences, 2025.  https://peer.asee.org/54190 Internet.  27 Apr, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_54190}
  Chuck H. Margraves, KIDAMBI SREENIVAS, Trevor S. Elliott, and Lance Isaac Rose.
  "Relating Kinetic Energy Changes to Power Generation in a Mechanical Engineering Wind Turbine Lab".
  \emph{2025 ASEE Southeast Conference , Mississippi State University, Mississippi, 2025, March}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2025.
  https://peer.asee.org/54190 Internet.  27 Apr, 2025

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title = "Relating Kinetic Energy Changes to Power Generation in a Mechanical Engineering Wind Turbine Lab"
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address = "Mississippi State University, Mississippi"
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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - All mechanical engineering students at XX University are required to take a senior level experimentation lab that covers topics in multiple areas of Mechanics as well as the Thermal Fluid Sciences.  The course is taught by two faculty members and consists of a one-hour course followed by a three-hour lab. One of the main goals of this course is to reinforce much of the undergraduate material students have covered in the first three years of the program.  Recently, a Wind Turbine experiment was added to the lab that demonstrated the effectiveness of blade orientation to power generation for a range of wind speeds.  The work provided in this study seeks to expand the effectiveness of this lab by demonstrating how the change in kinetic energy across the blades, measured using a pitot tube, is converted into rotational power, and finally into electrical power using a generator.  One of the benefits of this particular experiment, is that it allows the faculty to introduce both thermal fluid science concepts as well as mechanics in a single experiment, unlike many of the other labs, which tend to focus on only one area. Results showed that the change in kinetic energy across the blades resulted in approximately 77 watts of power, while the average rotational power was measured to be 21 Watts.  The electrical power produced was less than 1 watt showing the poor conversion efficiency for this particular generator. The second portion of this study aimed to determine the power generation numerically using the commercially available Computational Fluid Dynamics Software, Fluent. While good agreement was found on the calculated rotational power from the model, changes in kinetic energy where substantially different than those measured.  Further work on the computational model is currently being considered.   
AU  - Chuck H. Margraves
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TI  - Relating Kinetic Energy Changes to Power Generation in a Mechanical Engineering Wind Turbine Lab
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