Abstract
This paper presents validation and code-to-code verification of the latest version of the U.S. Department of Energy, National Renewable Energy Laboratory wind turbine aeroelastic engineering simulation tool, FAST v8. A set of 1141 test cases, for which experimental data from a Siemens 2.3MW machine have been made available and were in accordance with the International Electrotechnical Commission 61400-13 guidelines, were identified. These conditions were simulated using FAST as well as the Siemens in-house aeroelastic code, BHawC. This paper presents a detailed analysis comparing results from FAST with those from BHawC as well as experimental measurements, using statistics including the means and the standard deviations along with the power spectral densities of select turbine parameters and loads. Results indicate good agreement among the predictions using FAST, BHawC, and experimental measurements. These agreements are discussed in detail in this paper, along with some comments regarding the differences seen in these comparisons relative to the inherent uncertainties in such a model-based analysis.
| Original language | American English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 443-468 |
| Number of pages | 26 |
| Journal | Wind Energy Science |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2017 |
Bibliographical note
See NREL/JA-5000-72632 for article as published in Wind Energy Science DiscussionsNREL Publication Number
- NREL/JA-5000-68025
Keywords
- analysis
- code verification
- FAST
- simulation
- wind energy
- wind turbine