FAST v8 Verification and Validation for a Megawatt-Scale Wind Turbine with Aeroelastically Tailored Blades: Preprint

Srinivas Guntur; Jason Jonkman; Michael Sprague; Michael Hind; Ryan Sievers; Scott Schreck; Bonnie Jonkman

FAST v8 Verification and Validation for a Megawatt-Scale Wind Turbine with Aeroelastically Tailored Blades: Preprint

Srinivas Guntur, Jason Jonkman, Michael Sprague, Michael Hind, Ryan Sievers, Scott Schreck, Bonnie Jonkman

National Wind Technology Center

Siemens

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This paper presents findings from a verification and validation exercise on the latest version of the U.S. Department of Energy/National Renewable Energy Laboratory's in-house wind turbine aeroelastic design code FAST v8. Results from a set of 1141 FAST simulations were compared to those from Siemens' BHawC design code results, as well as experimental data from a heavily instrumented 2.3-MW Siemens wind turbine located at the National Wind Technology Center. The code validation was performed following the IEC-61400-13 standard, where a set of select quantities of interest from simulations at various wind speed and atmospheric turbulence conditions were used for a three-way comparison between FAST, BHawC, and the measurements. Results highlight many improvements of the latest version of FAST over its previous versions. This paper also provides comments from the authors on the data quality, and avenues for potential future work using these results.

Original language	American English
Number of pages	20
State	Published - 2016
Event	American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Science and Technology Forum and Exposition (SciTech 2016) - San Diego, California Duration: 4 Jan 2016 → 8 Jan 2016

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Conference	American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Science and Technology Forum and Exposition (SciTech 2016)
City	San Diego, California
Period	4/01/16 → 8/01/16

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NREL/CP-5000-65389

Keywords

aeroelastically tailored blades
BHawC
fast
NREL
numerical modeling
validation
verification
wind energy
wind turbine experiments

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Guntur, S., Jonkman, J., Sprague, M., Hind, M., Sievers, R., Schreck, S., & Jonkman, B. (2016). FAST v8 Verification and Validation for a Megawatt-Scale Wind Turbine with Aeroelastically Tailored Blades: Preprint. Paper presented at American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Science and Technology Forum and Exposition (SciTech 2016), San Diego, California. https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy16osti/65389.pdf

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FAST v8 Verification and Validation for a Megawatt-Scale Wind Turbine with Aeroelastically Tailored Blades: Preprint. / Guntur, Srinivas; Jonkman, Jason ; Sprague, Michael et al.
2016. Paper presented at American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Science and Technology Forum and Exposition (SciTech 2016), San Diego, California.

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