Predicting Cavitation on Marine and Hydrokinetic Turbine Blades with AeroDyn V15.04

Robynne Murray

doi:10.2172/1393384

Predicting Cavitation on Marine and Hydrokinetic Turbine Blades with AeroDyn V15.04

Robynne Murray

National Wind Technology Center

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Abstract

Cavitation is an important consideration in the design of marine and hydrokinetic (MHK) turbines. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory's AeroDyn performance code was originally developed for horizontal-axis wind turbines and did not have the capability to predict cavitation inception. Therefore, AeroDyn has been updated to include the ability to predict cavitation on MHK turbines based on user-specified vapor pressure and submerged depth. This report outlines a verification of the AeroDyn V15.04 performance code for MHK turbines through a comparison to publicly available performance data.

Original language	American English
Number of pages	26
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2172/1393384
State	Published - 2017

NREL Publication Number

NREL/TP-5000-68398

Keywords

AeroDyn
cavitation
marine and hydrokinetic
MHK
NREL
turbine
verification

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