BeamDyn: A High-Fidelity Wind Turbine Blade Solver in the FAST Modular Framework: Preprint
BeamDyn, a Legendre-spectral-finite-element implementation of geometrically exact beam theory (GEBT), was developed to meet the design challenges associated with highly flexible composite wind turbine blades. In this paper, the governing equations of GEBT are reformulated into a nonlinear state-space form to support its coupling within the modular framework of the FAST wind turbine computer-aided engineering (CAE) tool. Different time integration schemes (implicit and explicit) were implemented and examined for wind turbine analysis. Numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the capability of this new beam solver. An example analysis of a realistic wind turbine blade, the CX-100, is also presented as validation.
- Research Organization:
- National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Wind Power Technologies Office
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC36-08GO28308
- OSTI ID:
- 1168782
- Report Number(s):
- NREL/CP-5000-63165
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: To be presented at SciTech 2015, 5-9 January 2015, Kissimmee, Florida
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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