オープンソースCAEソフトウェアを利用したマイクロ風力発電の開発

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We continue to develop a micro wind power system such as horizontal and vertical axis turbines using open source CAE software, such xfrl5, Qblade and OpenFOAM. These open-source CAE software are not only cost-effective but also highly useful and having enough functionality for such development purposes. In this report, we present the flow of development process of the system and introduce how to use such open-source software during designing and evaluation processes. From experiences of utilization of them during R&D and students’ educations, it was confirmed that open-source CAE software are also very attractive for educating communication skills of students with foreign users and groups, which is important for global-working engineers today.