Assessment of Airfoil Property Sensitivity on Wind Turbine Extreme and Fatigue Loads

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Abstract

Wind turbines are designed using a set of simulations to determine the structural loads that the turbine could experience. These structural loads can be significantly influenced by physical turbine parameters. Although significant research and effort has been put into measuring and defining such parameters, limited work has been done to quantify the sensitivity of structural loads to uncertainty in the physical turbine parameters. This paper therefore seeks to assess the sensitivity of different turbine aerodynamic parameters on the resulting ultimate and fatigue loads of the turbine during normal operational conditions. Eighteen different turbine parameters are screened using an Elementary Effects approach with radial points. The results show a high sensitivity of the loads to the blade twist and lift coefficient distributions. To a lesser extent, other turbine parameters that drive loads include the maximum lift coefficient location, blade chord length, and drag coefficient distributions.

Original languageAmerican English
DOIs
StatePublished - 2019
EventAIAA Scitech Forum, 2019 - San Diego, United States
Duration: 7 Jan 201911 Jan 2019

Conference

ConferenceAIAA Scitech Forum, 2019
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Diego
Period7/01/1911/01/19

Bibliographical note

See NREL/CP-5000-72892 for preprint

NREL Publication Number

  • NREL/CP-5000-74502

Keywords

  • simulations
  • structural loads
  • turbine parameters
  • uncertainty
  • wind energy

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