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 language | American English |
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DOIs | |
State | Published - 2019 |
Event | AIAA Scitech Forum, 2019 - San Diego, United States Duration: 7 Jan 2019 → 11 Jan 2019 |
Conference
Conference | AIAA Scitech Forum, 2019 |
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Country/Territory | United States |
City | San Diego |
Period | 7/01/19 → 11/01/19 |
Bibliographical note
See NREL/CP-5000-72892 for preprintNREL Publication Number
- NREL/CP-5000-74502
Keywords
- simulations
- structural loads
- turbine parameters
- uncertainty
- wind energy