This paper presents the flow analysis of flow over a cylindrical helical-blade turbine to investigate its optimum performance by varying design parameters. For numerical investigations, shear stress transport (SST) turbulence model is used. This simulation is carried out using commercial code CFX by ANSYS Inc. In this paper, the shape optimization was of turbine blades with NACA0021 performed for the vertical-axis turbine having the cylindrical shape. The influences of blade angle of attack, helical angle, and solidity on each shape are grasped. From of the flow analysis, power coefficient decreased when the helical angle was 20 degrees or more, and no electricity is produced when the solidity of 0.1. As a result of the shape optimization, the cylindrical turbine showed the highest power coefficient of 0.2733 at 3° of the blade angle of attack, 10° of the helical angle, and 0.2 of the solidity at the tip speed ratio of 1.

In this study, the CFD analysis was performed by changing the geometry of coil-tube diameter ratio, coil winding number, coil pitch, and cross section of the tube to investigate the heat flow characteristics of forced convection in a helical coil-tube heat exchanger using RSM (Reynolds Stress Model). As a result, the secondary flow was developed in the tube caused by the influence of centrifugal force. It improved the heat transfer on the outer side of the tube, but on the inner side was not performed well. And the temperature rose locally in the tube region. Also the pressure drop in the tube was proportional to the diameter ratio of the coil-tube and the inlet velocity, and it was found that pressure drop and friction factor were inversely proportional. When the coil winding number and coil pitch were increased, it affected heat transfer in the low speed range of 0.1 ~ 0.2 m/s, but did not affect the flow condition after this range.