Computational Fluid Dynamics Analysis of a Solar Artificial Air Vortex Generator under the Influence of Varying Air Inlet Number and Generation Area

Many researchers have turned to studying and developing vortex technologies for generating clean electrical energy. Vortex technologies generate an upward swirling air stream when operating in a moderate temperature range. The conventional air solar collector with a swirling engine is inadequate for creating and keeping updrafts by a previous design. The solar air vortex generator (SAVG) is one of the new alternative energies utilising solar energy to create artificial vortices (AV). The principle of its operation is similar to that of the solar updraft tower (SUT) plan. The research sought to propose, design, and optimise an artificial air vortex generator (AAVG) system by performing a set of calculations using the ANSYS 2024 R1 simulation software. Therefore, there are two aims in this research the first one is the effect of the engine diameter of the solar air vortex generator (SAVG) system in one air inflow slot and the second aim is to study the effect of the number of air inflow slots on artificial air velocity vortex flow behaviour inside the (SAVG) model in single guide blades, these facts were not mentioned in previous studies. Reducing the diameter of the solar air vortex generator (SAVG) system in one slot inflow for [36] by 50% of its dimension can generally increase its kinetic energy, specifically its rotational kinetic energy reaching 1.712 m/s, meanwhile, the results showed that the four slots inflow played a significant role in improving the strength of the generated vortex and increasing its outflow velocity to 5.635 m/s with an enhancement of about 3.5 times of one slot inflow.