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Title: FAST Modular Wind Turbine CAE Tool: Nonmatching Spatial and Temporal Meshes: Preprint

Abstract

In this paper we propose and examine numerical algorithms for coupling time-dependent multi-physics modules relevant to computer-aided engineering (CAE) of wind turbines. In particular, we examine algorithms for coupling modules where spatial grids are non- matching at interfaces and module solutions are time advanced with different time increments and different time integrators. Sharing of data between modules is accomplished with a predictor-corrector approach, which allows for either implicit or explicit time integration within each module. Algorithms are presented in a general framework, but are applied to simple problems that are representative of the systems found in a whole-turbine analysis. Numerical experiments are used to explore the stability, accuracy, and efficiency of the proposed algorithms. This work is motivated by an in-progress major revision of FAST, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's (NREL's) premier aero-elastic CAE simulation tool. The algorithms described here will greatly increase the flexibility and efficiency of FAST.

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Research Org.:
National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Wind Power Program
OSTI Identifier:
1122300
Report Number(s):
NREL/CP-2C00-60742
DOE Contract Number:  
AC36-08GO28308
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: To be presented at SciTech2014, 13-17 January 2014, National Harbor, Maryland
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
17 WIND ENERGY; 97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING; NUMERICAL ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER-AIDED ENGINEERING (CAE); WIND TURBINES; COUPLING MODULES; MESH; Wind Energy; Computational Sciences

Citation Formats

Sprague, M. A., Jonkman, J. M., and Jonkman, B. J. FAST Modular Wind Turbine CAE Tool: Nonmatching Spatial and Temporal Meshes: Preprint. United States: N. p., 2014. Web. doi:10.2514/6.2014-0520.
Sprague, M. A., Jonkman, J. M., & Jonkman, B. J. FAST Modular Wind Turbine CAE Tool: Nonmatching Spatial and Temporal Meshes: Preprint. United States. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2014-0520
Sprague, M. A., Jonkman, J. M., and Jonkman, B. J. 2014. "FAST Modular Wind Turbine CAE Tool: Nonmatching Spatial and Temporal Meshes: Preprint". United States. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2014-0520. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1122300.
@article{osti_1122300,
title = {FAST Modular Wind Turbine CAE Tool: Nonmatching Spatial and Temporal Meshes: Preprint},
author = {Sprague, M. A. and Jonkman, J. M. and Jonkman, B. J.},
abstractNote = {In this paper we propose and examine numerical algorithms for coupling time-dependent multi-physics modules relevant to computer-aided engineering (CAE) of wind turbines. In particular, we examine algorithms for coupling modules where spatial grids are non- matching at interfaces and module solutions are time advanced with different time increments and different time integrators. Sharing of data between modules is accomplished with a predictor-corrector approach, which allows for either implicit or explicit time integration within each module. Algorithms are presented in a general framework, but are applied to simple problems that are representative of the systems found in a whole-turbine analysis. Numerical experiments are used to explore the stability, accuracy, and efficiency of the proposed algorithms. This work is motivated by an in-progress major revision of FAST, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's (NREL's) premier aero-elastic CAE simulation tool. The algorithms described here will greatly increase the flexibility and efficiency of FAST.},
doi = {10.2514/6.2014-0520},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1122300}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2014},
month = {Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2014}
}

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