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Title: Interaction of Atmospheric Turbulence with Blade Boundary Layer Dynamics on a 5MW Wind Turbine using Blade-Boundary-Layer-Resolved CFD with hybrid URANS-LES.

Conference ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2016-0521· OSTI ID:1348419
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  1. National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States); Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States)
  2. Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States); Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)

We describe the response of the NREL 5 MW wind turbine blade boundary layer to the passage of atmospheric turbulence using blade-boundary-layer-resolved computational fluid dynamics with hybrid URANS-LES modeling.

Research Organization:
Penn State University
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Wind and Water Technologies Office (EE-4W)
DOE Contract Number:
EE0005481
OSTI ID:
1348419
Report Number(s):
AIAA2016-0521
Resource Relation:
Conference: AIAA SciTech, 4-6 Jan 2016, San Diego, CA
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English