Matched pitch rate extensions to dynamic stall on rotor blades

Hanns Friedrich Müller-Vahl, Georgios Pechlivanoglou, Christian Navid Nayeri, Christian Oliver Paschereit and David Greenblatt

Renewable Energy, 2017, vol. 105, issue C, 505-519

Abstract: Dynamic stall on both horizontal axis and vertical axis wind turbine blades is accompanied by simultaneous changes in pitch and surge, but this simultaneous effect has never been documented. Using a unique unsteady wind tunnel, synchronous oscillations in angle of attack and flow speed were considered on two prototypical wind turbine blades. At a steady freestream, the concept of matched pitch rate was observed to be valid for large positive and negative pitch angles. In the presence of an unsteady stream, matching the flow speed as well as the pitch angle and its time derivative during pitch-up produced excellent correspondence between lift, drag and moment coefficients throughout the entire dynamic stall event.

Keywords: Dynamic stall; Matched pitch rate; Unsteady aerodynamics; Wind turbine (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2016.12.070

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