Aeromechanical Analysis of a Complete Wind Turbine Using Nonlinear Frequency Domain Solution Method

Shine Win Naung, Mohammad Rahmati*, Hamed Farokhi

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Abstract

The high-fidelity computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations of a complete wind turbine model usually require significant computational resources. It will require much more resources if the fluid–structure interactions (FSIs) between the blade and the flow are considered, and it has been the major challenge in the industry. The aeromechanical analysis of a complete wind turbine model using a high-fidelity CFD method is discussed in this paper. The distinctiveness of this paper is the application of the nonlinear frequency domain solution method to analyze the forced response and flutter instability of the blade as well as to investigate the unsteady flow field across the wind turbine rotor and the tower. This method also enables the aeromechanical simulations of wind turbines for various interblade phase angles in a combination with a phase shift solution method. Extensive validations of the nonlinear frequency domain solution method against the conventional time domain solution method reveal that the proposed frequency domain solution method can reduce the computational cost by one to two orders of magnitude.
Original languageEnglish
Article number011018
Number of pages9
JournalJournal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power
Volume143
Issue number1
Early online date2 Dec 2020
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2021

Keywords

  • Unsteady flow
  • Rotors
  • Phase shift
  • Flutter (Aerodynamics)
  • Fluid structure interaction
  • Flow (Dynamics)
  • Engineering simulation
  • Simulation
  • Computational fluid dynamics
  • Blades
  • Wind turbines
  • Aerodynamics
  • Nonlinear frequency domain solution method
  • Aeroelasticity
  • aerodynamics
  • aeroelasticity
  • computational fluid dynamics
  • nonlinear frequency domain solution method
  • wind turbines
  • Energy Engineering and Power Technology
  • Nuclear Energy and Engineering
  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Fuel Technology
  • Mechanical Engineering

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