Performance Prediction of a 5MW Wind Turbine Blade Considering Aeroelastic Effect

In this study, aeroelastic response and performance analyses have been conducted for a 5MW-Class composite wind turbine blade model. Advanced coupled numerical method based on computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and computational flexible multi-body dynamics (CFMBD) has been developed in order to investigate aeroelastic responses and performance characteristics of the rotating composite blade. Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations with k-ω SST turbulence model were solved for unsteady flow problems on the rotating turbine blade model. Also, structural analyses considering rotating effect have been conducted using the general nonlinear finite element method. A fully implicit time marching scheme based on the Newmark direct integration method is applied to solve the coupled aeroelastic governing equations of the 3D turbine blade for fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems. Detailed dynamic responses and instantaneous velocity contour on the blade surfaces which considering flow-separation effects were presented to show the multi-physical phenomenon of the huge rotating wind- turbine blade model.

Authors:

• Dong-Hyun Kim
• Yoo-Han Kim

Keywords:

• Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
• Computational Multi-Body Dynamics (CMBD)
• Reynolds-averageNavier-Stokes (RANS)
• Fluid Structure Interaction (FSI)
• FiniteElement Method (FEM)

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