Swept Blade Aero-Elastic Model for a Small Wind Turbine (Presentation): NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)

Sang Lee, Scott Larwood, Rick Damiani

Research output: NRELPresentation

Abstract

A preprocessor for analyzing preswept wind turbines using the in-house aero-elastic tool coupled with a multibody dynamic simulator was developed. A baseline 10-kW small wind turbine with straight blades and various configurations that featured bend-torsion coupling via blade-tip sweep were investigated to study their impact on ultimate loads and fatigue damage equivalent loads.
Original languageAmerican English
Number of pages17
StatePublished - 2014

Publication series

NamePresented at the 2014 National Solar Conference, 6-10 July 2014, San Francisco, California

NREL Publication Number

  • NREL/PR-5000-62337

Keywords

  • aero-elastic
  • multibody dynamics
  • NREL
  • preprocessor
  • simulator
  • wind turbine

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