HAWC2 and BeamDyn: Comparison Between Beam Structural Models for Aero-Servo-Elastic Frameworks

Christian Pavese; Qi Wang; Taeseong Kim; Jason Jonkman; Michael A. Sprague

HAWC2 and BeamDyn: Comparison Between Beam Structural Models for Aero-Servo-Elastic Frameworks

Christian Pavese, Qi Wang, Taeseong Kim, Jason Jonkman, Michael A. Sprague

National Wind Technology Center

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Abstract

This work presents a comparison of two beam codes for aero-servo-elastic frameworks: a new structural model for the aeroelastic code HAWC2 and a new nonlinear beam model, BeamDyn, for the aeroelastic modularization framework FAST v8. The main goal is to establish the suitability of the two approaches to model the structural behaviour of modern wind turbine blades in operation. Through a series of benchmarking structural cases of increasing complexity, the capability of the two codes to simulate highly nonlinear effects is investigated and analyzed. Results show that even though the geometrically exact beam theory can better model effects such as very large deflections, rotations, and structural couplings, an approach based on a multi-body formulation assembled through linear elements is capable of computing accurate solutions for typical nonlinear beam theory benchmarking cases.

Original language	American English
Pages	1193-1201
Number of pages	9
State	Published - 2015
Event	European Wind Energy Association Annual Conference and Exhibition 2015, EWEA 2015 - Paris, France Duration: 17 Nov 2015 → 20 Nov 2015

Conference

Conference	European Wind Energy Association Annual Conference and Exhibition 2015, EWEA 2015
Country/Territory	France
City	Paris
Period	17/11/15 → 20/11/15

Bibliographical note

See NREL/CP-5000-65115 for preprint

NREL Publication Number

NREL/CP-5000-66990

Keywords

BeamDyn
FAST
HACW
structural behavior
wind turbine blades

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