INFLUENCE OF TRAILING EDGE FLAPS ON HORIZONTAL AXIS WIND TURBINE PERFORMANCE

Model Predictive Control of Trailing Edge Flaps on a Wind Turbine Blade

Trailing Edge Flaps on wind turbine blades have been studied in order to achieve fatigue load reduction on the turbine components. We show in this paper how Model Predictive Control can be used to do frequency weighted control of the trailing edge flaps in order to reduce fatigue damage on the blade root. The design model is based on a modal model of the blade structure and a steady state aerod...

A Studyof the Design of Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine

In this using paper a method is presented for the aerodynamic and structural analysis of a horizontal axis wind turbine using simplified methods. In the first part of the program the optimum rotor configuration for twist and chord is determined using the momentum and blade element theories for a rotor without coning or tilting and assuming zero drag average wind velocity. Then coning angle and ...

Aerodynamic Analysis of Trailing Edge Enlarged Wind Turbine Airfoils

Design and Implementation of the Rotor Blades of Small Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine

Since the renewable resources of energy have become extremely important, especially wind energy, scientists have begun to modify the design of the wind turbine components, mainly rotor blades. Aerodynamic design considered a major research field related to power production of a small horizontal wind turbine, especially in low wind speed locations. This study displays an approach to the selectio...

Mode Analysis of Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine Blades

This paper presents a recently developed the finite model method for analysis of horizontal axis wind turbine blades. Free vibration equation is proposed based on theory of the classical lamination and Lagrange method. A 40 m rotor blade was chosen as a example study to validate the static and dynamic behaviour predicted by shell model built in ANSYS,Given uncertainty of material properties inv...