Rotational Augmentation Disparities in the MEXICO and UAE Phase VI Experiments: Preprint
Wind turbine structures and components suffer excessive loads and premature failures when key aerodynamic phenomena are not well characterized, fail to be understood, or are inaccurately predicted. Turbine blade rotational augmentation remains incompletely characterized and understood, thus limiting robust prediction for design. Pertinent rotational augmentation research including experimental,theoretical, and computational work has been pursued for some time, but large scale wind tunnel testing is a relatively recent development for investigating wind turbine blade aerodynamics. Because of their large scale and complementary nature, the MEXICO and UAE Phase VI wind tunnel experiments offer unprecedented synergies to better characterize and understand rotational augmentation of bladeaerodynamics.
- Research Organization:
- National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC36-08GO28308
- OSTI ID:
- 979465
- Report Number(s):
- NREL/CP-500-47759; TRN: US201010%%695
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Presented at the 2010 Torque from Wind Conference, 28-30 June 2010, Heraklion, Greece
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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