Abstract
The National Wind Technology Center of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory is comparing several computer cosed used to design and analyze wind turbines. The first part of this comparison is to determine how well the programs predict the aerodynamic behavior of turbines with no structural degrees of freedom. Without general agreement on the aerodynamics, it is futile to try to compare thestructural response due to the aerodynamic input. In this document, we compare the aerodynamic loads for three programs: Garrad Hassan's BLADED, our own WT_Perf, and the University of Utah's YawDyn. This report documents a work in progress and compares only two-bladed, downwind turbines.
| Original language | American English |
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| Number of pages | 11 |
| State | Published - 1997 |
| Event | 17th ASME Wind Energy Symposium - Reno, Nevada Duration: 12 Jan 1998 → 15 Jan 1998 |
Conference
| Conference | 17th ASME Wind Energy Symposium |
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| City | Reno, Nevada |
| Period | 12/01/98 → 15/01/98 |
NREL Publication Number
- NREL/CP-500-23975
Keywords
- aerodynamics
- turbines
- wind