학술논문

Rotational Augmentation Disparities in the MEXICO and UAE Phase VI Experiments: Preprint
Document Type
Conference
Author
Source
Conference: Presented at the 2010 Torque from Wind Conference, 28-30 June 2010, Heraklion, Greece
Subject
17 WIND ENERGY AERODYNAMICS
DESIGN
FORECASTING
TESTING
TORQUE
TURBINE BLADES
WIND TUNNELS
WIND TURBINES force amplification
rotational augmentation
wind tunnels
wind turbine
unsteady loading
force amplification
Language
English
Abstract
Wind turbine structures and components suffer excessive loads and premature failures when key aerodynamic phenomena are not well characterized, fail to be understood, or are inaccurately predicted. Turbine blade rotational augmentation remains incompletely characterized and understood, thus limiting robust prediction for design. Pertinent rotational augmentation research including experimental,theoretical, and computational work has been pursued for some time, but large scale wind tunnel testing is a relatively recent development for investigating wind turbine blade aerodynamics. Because of their large scale and complementary nature, the MEXICO and UAE Phase VI wind tunnel experiments offer unprecedented synergies to better characterize and understand rotational augmentation of bladeaerodynamics.