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Analytical method to determine a tip loss factor for highly-loaded wind turbine rotors

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Abstract

The commonly observed overprediction of tip loads on wind turbine blades by classical blade-element momentum theory is investigated by means of an analytical method that determines the tip loss factor for a given blade flow angle including tip vortex rollup. The higher-order free-wake method, Wind DVE, is used to compute the actual rollup process in the near wake of a highly-loaded wind turbine rotor. The resulting spanwise distributions of the blade flow angle serve as input to the analytical method that is subsequently tested for the NREL Phase VI rotor by implementing a corrected tip loss factor into the blade-element code, XTurb.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication34th Wind Energy Symposium
PublisherAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc, AIAA
ISBN (Print)9781624103957
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016
Event34th Wind Energy Symposium, 2016 - San Diego, United States
Duration: Jan 4 2016Jan 8 2016

Publication series

Name34th Wind Energy Symposium

Conference

Conference34th Wind Energy Symposium, 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Diego
Period1/4/161/8/16

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
    SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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