Wind Turbines: Blade Design

Presentations

• Instability of outer tip vortices for a 2.5 MW wind turbine: integrating snow PIV with LES

  ORAL

  Nov. 22, 2015, 2:10 PM – Nov. 22, 2015, 2:23 PM

  Authors

  • Fotis Sotiropoulos

    • St. Anthony Falls Lab., University of Minnesota
    • St. Anthony Falls Lab. University of Minnesota
    • Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering, University of Minnesota
    • Univ of Minn - Minneapolis
    • University of Minnesota
    • St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota
    • Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota

  • Xiaolei Yang

    • Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering, University of Minnesota
    • St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota
    • University of Minnesota

  • Jiarong Hong

    • University of Minnesota

  • Matthew Barone

    • Sandia National Laboratories

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• Experimental Study on the Effects of Winglets on the Wake of a Model Wind Turbine

  ORAL

  Nov. 22, 2015, 2:23 PM – Nov. 22, 2015, 2:36 PM

  Authors

  • Nicolas Tobin

    • Univ of Illinois - Urbana

  • Ali M. Hamed

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • Univ of Illinois - Urbana
    • Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Leonardo P. Chamorro

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
    • Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • Univ of Illinois - Urbana
    • Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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• Fluid-structure coupling for wind turbine blade analysis using OpenFOAM

  ORAL

  Nov. 22, 2015, 2:36 PM – Nov. 22, 2015, 2:49 PM

  Authors

  • Bastian Dose

    • ForWind - Institute of Physics, University of Oldenburg

  • Ivan Herraez

    • ForWind - Institute of Physics, University of Oldenburg

  • Joachim Peinke

    • ForWind - Institute of Physics, University of Oldenburg

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• Dominant mechanism of load fluctuations on a wind turbine in a realistic atmosphere through Hybrid URANS-LES

  ORAL

  Nov. 22, 2015, 2:49 PM – Nov. 22, 2015, 3:02 PM

  Authors

  • Ganesh Vijayakumar

    • Pennsylvania State University

  • Adam Lavely

    • Pennsylvania State University

  • Balaji Jayaraman

    • Pennsylvania State University

  • Brent Craven

    • Pennsylvania State University

  • James Brasseur

    • Pennsylvania State University

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• An Aeroelastic Perspective of Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Wake Formation and Instability

  ORAL

  Nov. 22, 2015, 3:02 PM – Nov. 22, 2015, 3:15 PM

  Authors

  • Steven N. Rodriguez

    • Lehigh University

  • Justin Jaworski

    • Lehigh University

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• POD based analysis of three-dimensional stall over a pitching wind turbine blade

  ORAL

  Nov. 22, 2015, 3:15 PM – Nov. 22, 2015, 3:28 PM

  Authors

  • Matthew Melius

    • Portland State University

  • Raul Bayoan Cal

    • Portland State University

  • Karen Mulleners

    • EPFL
    • ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE

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• Reduced-order FSI simulation of NREL 5 MW wind turbine in atmospheric boundary layer turbulence

  ORAL

  Nov. 22, 2015, 3:28 PM – Nov. 22, 2015, 3:41 PM

  Authors

  • Javier Motta-Mena

    • Pennsylvania State University

  • Robert Campbell

    • Pennsylvania State University

  • Adam Lavely

    • Pennsylvania State University

  • Pankaj Jha

    • Pennsylvania State University

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• Turbulent Potential Model Predictions of High Re Flow Around the S809 Airfoil

  ORAL

  Nov. 22, 2015, 3:41 PM – Nov. 22, 2015, 3:54 PM

  Authors

  • Nathaniel DeVelder

    • Univ of Mass - Amherst

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• ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN

  Nov. 22, 2015, 3:54 PM – Nov. 22, 2015, 4:07 PM

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• Effect of blade loading and rotor speed on the optimal aerodynamic performance of wind turbine blades

  ORAL

  Nov. 22, 2015, 4:07 PM – Nov. 22, 2015, 4:20 PM

  Authors

  • Christopher Bryson

    • Texas Tech University

  • Fazle Hussain

    • Texas Tech University

  • Alan Barhorst

    • Texas Tech University

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