FAST v8 Verification and Validation for a MW-scale Wind Turbine with Aeroelastically Tailored Blades

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

doi:10.2514/6.2016-1008

FAST v8 Verification and Validation for a MW-scale Wind Turbine with Aeroelastically Tailored Blades

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

National Wind Technology Center

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This paper presents findings from a verification and validation exercise on the latest version of the Department of Energy/National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s wind turbine aeroelastic engineering tool FAST v8. Results from a set of 1141 FAST simulations were compared to those from Siemens’ aeroelastic tool BHawC, 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	18
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2016-1008 https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2016-1008
State	Published - 2016
Event	34th Wind Energy Symposium, 2016 - San Diego, United States Duration: 4 Jan 2016 → 8 Jan 2016

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Conference	34th Wind Energy Symposium, 2016
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Diego
Period	4/01/16 → 8/01/16

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See NREL/CP-5000-65389 for preprint

NREL Publication Number

NREL/CP-5000-66033

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AIAA 2016-1008

Keywords

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

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FAST v8 Verification and Validation for a MW-scale Wind Turbine with Aeroelastically Tailored Blades

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