Wind EnergyPub Date : 2022-10-25DOI: 10.1002/we.2780
S. G. Horcas, N. Ramos‐García, A. Li, G. Pirrung, T. Barlas
{"title":"Comparison of aerodynamic models for horizontal axis wind turbine blades accounting for curved tip shapes","authors":"S. G. Horcas, N. Ramos‐García, A. Li, G. Pirrung, T. Barlas","doi":"10.1002/we.2780","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/we.2780","url":null,"abstract":"Curved tip extensions are among the rotor innovation concepts that can contribute to the higher performance and lower cost of horizontal axis wind turbines. One of the key drivers to exploit their advantages is the use of accurate and efficient computational aerodynamic models during the design stage. The present work gives an overview of the performance of different state-of-the-art models. The following tools were employed, in descending order of complexity: (i) a blade-resolved Navier Stokes solver, (ii) a lifting line model, (iii) a vortex-based method coupling a near-wake model with a far-wake model, and (iv) two implementations of the widely used blade element momentum method (BEM), with and without radial induction. The predictions of the codes were compared when simulating the baseline geometry of a reference wind turbine and different tip extension designs with relatively large sweep angle and/or dihedral angle. Four load cases were selected for this comparison, to cover several aspects of the aerodynamic modeling: steady power curve, pitch step, extreme operating gust impact, and standstill in deep stall. The present study highlighted the limitations of the BEM-based formulations to capture the trends attributed to the introduction of curvature at the tip. This was true even when using the radial induction submodel. The rest of the computational methods showed relatively good agreement in most of the studied load cases. An exception to this was the standstill configuration, as the blade-resolved Navier-Stokes solver was the only code able to capture the highly unsteady effects of deep stall.","PeriodicalId":23689,"journal":{"name":"Wind Energy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43341529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Wind EnergyPub Date : 2022-10-21DOI: 10.1002/we.2788
Jingna Pan, C. Ferreira, A. V. van Zuijlen
{"title":"Estimation of power performances and flow characteristics for a Savonius rotor by vortex particle method","authors":"Jingna Pan, C. Ferreira, A. V. van Zuijlen","doi":"10.1002/we.2788","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/we.2788","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23689,"journal":{"name":"Wind Energy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47077492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Wind EnergyPub Date : 2022-10-18DOI: 10.1002/we.2786
A. Suryadi, C. Jätz, J. Seume, M. Herr
{"title":"Identifying the flap side‐edge noise contribution of a wind turbine blade section with an adaptive trailing edge","authors":"A. Suryadi, C. Jätz, J. Seume, M. Herr","doi":"10.1002/we.2786","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/we.2786","url":null,"abstract":"Summary Active trailing-edge technology is a promising application for localized load alleviation of large-diameter wind turbine rotors, accomplished using one or more control surfaces in the rotor blade’s outer region. This work focuses on identifying noise contributions from the flap side-edge and the trailing edge in a laboratory condition. Measurements were conducted in the Acoustic Wind tunnel Braunschweig (AWB) at the German Aerospace Center’s (DLR) Braunschweig site. The small-scale model has a span of 1200 mm and a chord of 300 mm. The control surface, a plain flap, has a span of 400 mm and a chord length of 90 mm. Far-field noise was measured using a phased-microphone array for various flow speeds, angles of attack and flap deflection angles. For sound source identification, two noise reduction addons were installed interchangeably: trailing-edge brush and flap side-edge porous foam. Analysis of the far-field noise reveals that, while changes to the flap deflection angle alter the far-field noise spectra, the trailing-edge noise remains the predominant noise source at deflection angles − 5 ◦ and 5 ◦ . No additional noise level was observed from the flap side-edge within the measurable frequency range at these angles. The flap side-edge noise has an increased role for frequency larger than 2 kHz for the larger flap deflection angles of − 10 ◦ and 10 ◦ . Furthermore, numerical reproduction of the results will also be presented using the FMCAS (Fast Multipole Code for Acoustic Shielding) toolchain developed at DLR.","PeriodicalId":23689,"journal":{"name":"Wind Energy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47047586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Wind EnergyPub Date : 2022-09-27DOI: 10.1002/we.2781
Sepideh Kianbakht, Dana P. Martin, K. Johnson, D. Zalkind, Lucy Pao, E. Loth, Juliet G. Simpson, Shulong Yao, M. Chetan, D. Griffith
{"title":"Design space exploration and decision‐making for a segmented ultralight morphing 50‐MW wind turbine","authors":"Sepideh Kianbakht, Dana P. Martin, K. Johnson, D. Zalkind, Lucy Pao, E. Loth, Juliet G. Simpson, Shulong Yao, M. Chetan, D. Griffith","doi":"10.1002/we.2781","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/we.2781","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23689,"journal":{"name":"Wind Energy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46449597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Wind EnergyPub Date : 2022-09-24DOI: 10.1002/we.2785
E. Branlard, L. Martínez‐Tossas, J. Jonkman
{"title":"A time‐varying formulation of the curled wake model within the FAST.Farm framework","authors":"E. Branlard, L. Martínez‐Tossas, J. Jonkman","doi":"10.1002/we.2785","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/we.2785","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23689,"journal":{"name":"Wind Energy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45584097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Wind EnergyPub Date : 2022-09-22DOI: 10.1002/we.2782
Markus Gross, V. Magar, A. Peña
{"title":"Evaluation of orography and roughness model inputs and deep neural network regression for wind speed predictions","authors":"Markus Gross, V. Magar, A. Peña","doi":"10.1002/we.2782","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/we.2782","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23689,"journal":{"name":"Wind Energy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46299237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Wind EnergyPub Date : 2022-09-22DOI: 10.1002/we.2784
A. Suryadi, F. Schmidt, C. Appel, N. Reiche, R. Ewert, M. Herr, J. Wild
{"title":"Noise simulations of flap devices for wind turbine rotors","authors":"A. Suryadi, F. Schmidt, C. Appel, N. Reiche, R. Ewert, M. Herr, J. Wild","doi":"10.1002/we.2784","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/we.2784","url":null,"abstract":"The rotor of a large diameter wind turbine experiences more substantial and more dynamic loads due to the fluctuating and heterogeneous wind field. The project SmartBlades 2.0 investigated rotor blade design concepts that alleviate aerodynamic loading using active and passive mechanisms. The present work evaluates the acoustics of the two load alleviating concepts separately, an inboard slat and an outboard flap, using the Fast Random Particle Mesh/Fast Multipole Code for Acoustic Shielding (FRPM/FMCAS) numerical prediction toolchain developed at DLR with input from the averaged flow field from RANS. The numerical tools produce a comparable flap side-edge noise spectrum with that of the measurement conducted in the Acoustic Wind Tunnel Braunschweig (AWB). The validated FRPM/FMCAS was then used to analyze the self-noise from a slat at the inboard section of a rotor blade with a 44.45 m radius and compared with that from the outboard trailing edge. Furthermore, the rotational effect of the rotor was included in the post-processing to emulate the noise observed at ground level. The findings show an increase in the slat's overall sound pressure level and a maximum radiation upwind of the wind turbine for the case with the largest wind speed that represents the off-design condition. In operational conditions, the slat adds at most 2 dB to the overall sound pressure level. The toolchain evaluates wind turbine noise with conventional or unconventional blade design, and the problem can be scaled up for a full-scale analysis. As such, the tools presented can be used to design low-noise wind turbines efficiently.","PeriodicalId":23689,"journal":{"name":"Wind Energy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42314317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Wind EnergyPub Date : 2022-09-18DOI: 10.1002/we.2783
Muyuan Li, Yanbo Shen, Jinfeng Yao, Dong Ye, Jing Fan, I. Simmonds
{"title":"An assessment of observed wind speed and wind power density over China for 1980–2021","authors":"Muyuan Li, Yanbo Shen, Jinfeng Yao, Dong Ye, Jing Fan, I. Simmonds","doi":"10.1002/we.2783","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/we.2783","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23689,"journal":{"name":"Wind Energy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46074446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Wind EnergyPub Date : 2022-09-07DOI: 10.1002/we.2779
C. Schulz, Ke-qi Wang, K. Wieczorek, S. Netzband, M. Abdel‐Maksoud
{"title":"Experimental and numerical investigation of the yaw moment of a downwind coned wind turbine rotor","authors":"C. Schulz, Ke-qi Wang, K. Wieczorek, S. Netzband, M. Abdel‐Maksoud","doi":"10.1002/we.2779","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/we.2779","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23689,"journal":{"name":"Wind Energy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41396254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}