Analysis of the sweeped actuator line method
Abstract
The actuator line method made it possible to describe the near wake of a wind turbine more accurately than with the actuator disk method. Whereas the actuator line generates the helicoidal vortex system shed from the tip blades, the actuator disk method sheds a vortex sheet from the edge of the rotor plane. But with the actuator line come also temporal and spatial constraints, such as the need for a much smaller time step than with actuator disk. While the latter one only has to obey the Courant-Friedrichs-Lewy condition, the former one is also restricted by the grid resolution and the rotor tip-speed. Additionally the spatial resolution has to be finer for the actuator line than with the actuator disk, for well resolving the tip vortices. Therefore this work is dedicated to examining a method in between of actuator line and actuator disk, which is able to model the transient behavior, such as the rotating blades, but which also relaxes the temporal constraint. Therefore a larger time-step is used and the blade forces are swept over a certain area. As a result, the main focus of this article is on the aspect of the blade tip vortex generation in comparisonmore »
- Authors:
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- Ecole de Technologie Superieure, Montreal, QC (Canada)
- National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1352992
- Report Number(s):
- NREL/JA-5000-68400
Journal ID: ISSN 2267-1242
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC36-08GO28308
- Resource Type:
- Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- E3S Web of Conferences
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 2267-1242
- Publisher:
- EDP Sciences
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 17 WIND ENERGY; actuator line method; wind turbines; blade tip vortex generation
Citation Formats
Nathan, Jörn, Masson, Christian, Dufresne, Louis, and Churchfield, Matthew J. Analysis of the sweeped actuator line method. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1051/e3sconf/20150501001.
Nathan, Jörn, Masson, Christian, Dufresne, Louis, & Churchfield, Matthew J. Analysis of the sweeped actuator line method. United States. https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20150501001
Nathan, Jörn, Masson, Christian, Dufresne, Louis, and Churchfield, Matthew J. 2015.
"Analysis of the sweeped actuator line method". United States. https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20150501001. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1352992.
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abstractNote = {The actuator line method made it possible to describe the near wake of a wind turbine more accurately than with the actuator disk method. Whereas the actuator line generates the helicoidal vortex system shed from the tip blades, the actuator disk method sheds a vortex sheet from the edge of the rotor plane. But with the actuator line come also temporal and spatial constraints, such as the need for a much smaller time step than with actuator disk. While the latter one only has to obey the Courant-Friedrichs-Lewy condition, the former one is also restricted by the grid resolution and the rotor tip-speed. Additionally the spatial resolution has to be finer for the actuator line than with the actuator disk, for well resolving the tip vortices. Therefore this work is dedicated to examining a method in between of actuator line and actuator disk, which is able to model the transient behavior, such as the rotating blades, but which also relaxes the temporal constraint. Therefore a larger time-step is used and the blade forces are swept over a certain area. As a result, the main focus of this article is on the aspect of the blade tip vortex generation in comparison with the standard actuator line and actuator disk.},
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year = {Fri Oct 16 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
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