Aerodynamic design of wind turbine blades considering manufacturing constraints

Nearchos Stylianidis; Terence Macquart; Alireza Maheri

doi:10.1109/EFEA.2014.7059984

Aerodynamic design of wind turbine blades considering manufacturing constraints

Nearchos Stylianidis, Terence Macquart, Alireza Maheri

Northumbria University

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Abstract

The present paper investigates the aerodynamic design of wind turbine blades while considering manufacturing constraints. Blade topologies achieved by unconstrained optimisation methods are likely to lose optimality after manufacturing simplifications are applied. The present paper proposes and evaluates the performance of an optimisation method for wind turbine blades while considering manufacturing constraints. The optimal solution achieved this way is manufacturing-ready. In addition, integrating manufacturing design knowledge into the optimisation is shown to significantly reduce the design space, and therefore the time taken by the optimisation algorithm. While the proposed method herein is described for a standalone aerodynamic optimisation, it can also be used for aero-structural optimisations.

Original language	English
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/EFEA.2014.7059984
Publication status	Published - Nov 2014
Event	3rd International Symposium On Environment Friendly Energies And Applications (EFEA 2014) - Paris Duration: 20 Nov 2014 → … http://soe.northumbria.ac.uk/efea2014/

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Conference	3rd International Symposium On Environment Friendly Energies And Applications (EFEA 2014)
Period	20/11/14 → …
Internet address	http://soe.northumbria.ac.uk/efea2014/

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aerodynamic design
aerofoil blending
chord linearisation
optimisation
wind turbine

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