Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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303121 | Renewable Energy | 2006 | 13 Pages |
Abstract
An aero-structure code has been developed to predict the performance of a horizontal axis wind turbine (HAWT) with adaptive blades. The code is a combination of an aerodynamic code, an adaptive mesh generator and a finite element code, all developed especially for this purpose. It has been shown that for a high elastic coupling, a coupled aero-structure simulation approach is necessary to have acceptable results while a single step simulation approach can only be used to estimate the blade loading and wind turbine power.
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Authors
Alireza Maheri, Siamak Noroozi, Chris A. Toomer, John Vinney,