Modelling of unsteady flows on wind turbines

Completed

Renewable Energy Sources(Wind Energy)

Basic and strategic applied research

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Mechanical, Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering)

Not Cross-cutting

Professor F Coton
Aerospace Engineering
University of Glasgow

Standard

EPSRC

01 November 2003

30 April 2007

42 months

£264,235

Mechanical engineering

Scotland

Mechanical Engineering Responsive -- Materials, Mechanical and Medical Eng

Professor F Coton, Aerospace Engineering, University of Glasgow

Project Contact, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), USA
Project Contact, Garrad Hassan and Partners Ltd
Project Contact, Instituto de Salud Carlos III

In December 2000 the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (USA) held an international seminar to consider the predictive capabilities of wind-turbine codes using their recently measured data. This highlighted the need for a detailed consideration of the codes sub-system with proper bench marking (became part of an International Energy Association Annex). The present proposal considers a significant part of that Annex; the unsteady aerodynamic-modelling. This will be achieved by a series of aerofoil wind tunnel tests to obtain appropriate data for the configuration of the Leishman-Beddoes Dynamic-Stall Model. This will be compared with that resulting from the NREL data and a final benchmarked model offered to the international community for assessment. An international seminar, similar to the one held for the 'Blind Test, will conclude the work. The NREL experiment was of such significance that a special edition of VVind Energy was devoted to the initial consideration of the collected data (contents page enclosed) and it was for the current proposers paper that they won the best paper at the ASME Wind Energy Symposium in 2002.

13/08/07