WTAB, a computer program for predicting the performance of horizontal axis wind turbines with adaptive blades

Alireza Maheri, Siamak Noroozi, Chris A. Toomer and John Vinney

Renewable Energy, 2006, vol. 31, issue 11, 1673-1685

Abstract: An aero-structure code has been developed to predict the performance of a horizontal axis wind turbine (HAWT) with adaptive blades. The code is a combination of an aerodynamic code, an adaptive mesh generator and a finite element code, all developed especially for this purpose. It has been shown that for a high elastic coupling, a coupled aero-structure simulation approach is necessary to have acceptable results while a single step simulation approach can only be used to estimate the blade loading and wind turbine power.

Keywords: Wind turbine; Adaptive blade; Elastic coupling; TRIC; BEMT (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2005.09.023

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