Skip to main content
OSTI.GOVU.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information
 

A validation and code-to-code verification of FAST for a megawatt-scale wind turbine with aeroelastically tailored blades

Journal Article · · Wind Energy Science (Online)
; ; ; ; ;

Abstract. This paper presents validation and code-to-code verification of the latest version of the U.S. Department of Energy, National Renewable Energy Laboratory wind turbine aeroelastic engineering simulation tool, FAST v8. A set of 1141 test cases, for which experimental data from a Siemens 2.3 MW machine have been made available and were in accordance with the International Electrotechnical Commission 61400-13 guidelines, were identified. These conditions were simulated using FAST as well as the Siemens in-house aeroelastic code, BHawC. This paper presents a detailed analysis comparing results from FAST with those from BHawC as well as experimental measurements, using statistics including the means and the standard deviations along with the power spectral densities of select turbine parameters and loads. Results indicate good agreement among the predictions using FAST, BHawC, and experimental measurements. These agreements are discussed in detail in this paper, along with some comments regarding the differences seen in these comparisons relative to the inherent uncertainties in such a model-based analysis.

Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
Grant/Contract Number:
AC36-08GO28308
OSTI ID:
1377644
Journal Information:
Wind Energy Science (Online), Journal Name: Wind Energy Science (Online) Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 2; ISSN 2366-7451
Publisher:
European Wind Energy Association - CopernicusCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
Germany
Language:
English

References (17)

Accuracy of an efficient framework for structural analysis of wind turbine blades: Accuracy of an efficient framework for structural analysis of wind turbine blades journal October 2015
Present Status of Aeroelasticity of Wind Turbines journal January 2003
Review of aeroelasticity for wind turbine: Current status, research focus and future perspectives journal December 2011
Variational-asymptotic modeling of the thermoelastic behavior of composite beams journal August 2011
Analysis of aeroelastic loads and their contributions to fatigue damage journal December 2014
Recommendations for load validation of an offshore wind turbine with the use of statistical data: experience from alpha ventus journal September 2016
Field Validation of the Stability Limit of a Multi MW Turbine journal September 2016
A Framework for Validation of Computer Models journal May 2007
Inflow Characterization and Aerodynamic Measurements on a SWT-2.3-101 Wind turbine
  • Medina, Paul; Singh, Manjinder; Johansen, Jeppe
  • 50th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2012-230
conference November 2012
The New Modularization Framework for the FAST Wind Turbine CAE Tool conference January 2013
Development and Validation of a New Blade Element Momentum Skewed-Wake Model within AeroDyn conference January 2015
FAST Modular Framework for Wind Turbine Simulation: New Algorithms and Numerical Examples conference January 2015
BeamDyn: A High-Fidelity Wind Turbine Blade Solver in the FAST Modular Framework conference January 2015
Partitioned nonlinear structural analysis of wind turbines using BeamDyn conference January 2016
Development and Validation of a New Unsteady Airfoil Aerodynamics Model Within AeroDyn conference January 2016
FAST v8 Verification and Validation for a MW-scale Wind Turbine with Aeroelastically Tailored Blades conference January 2016
On Space-Time Resolution of Inflow Representations for Wind Turbine Loads Analysis journal June 2012

Similar Records

A Validation and Code-to-Code Verification of FAST for a Megawatt-Scale Wind Turbine with Aeroelastically Tailored Blades
Journal Article · Tue Aug 29 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Wind Energy Science Discussions · OSTI ID:1389738
FAST v8 Verification and Validation for a Megawatt-Scale Wind Turbine with Aeroelastically Tailored Blades: Preprint
Conference · Tue Jan 26 23:00:00 EST 2016 · OSTI ID:1237299
A simple method for modelling fatigue spectra of small wind turbine blades
Journal Article · Wed Nov 04 23:00:00 EST 2020 · Wind Energy · OSTI ID:1755715

Related Subjects