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http://dx.doi.org/10.3795/KSME-B.2009.33.12.1007

Design of a 2MW Blade for Wind Turbine and Uni-Directional Fluid Structure Interaction Simulation  

Kim, Bum-Suk ((사)한국선급 에너지.환경사업단)
Lee, Kang-Su ((사)한국선급 에너지.환경사업단)
Kim, Mann-Eung ((사)한국선급 에너지.환경사업단)
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Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B / v.33, no.12, 2009 , pp. 1007-1013 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purposes of this study are to evaluate the power performance through CFD analysis and structural integrity through uni-directional FSI analysis in aerodynamic design and structure design of wind turbine blade. The blade was designed to generate the power of 2MW under the rated wind speed of 11 m/s, consisting of NACA 6 series, DU series and FFA series airfoil. The inside section of the blade was designed into D-spar structure and circular stiffener was placed to reinforce the structural strength in the part of hub. CFD analysis with the application of transitional turbulence model was performed to evaluate the power performance of blade according to the change of TSR and 2.024MW resulted under the condition of rated wind speed. TSR of 9 produced the maximum power coefficient and in this case, Cp was 0.494. This study applied uni-directional FSI analysis for more precise evaluation of structural integrity of blade, and the results of fiber failure, inter fiber failure and eigenvalue buckling analysis were evaluated, respectively. For the evaluation, Puck's failure criteria was applied and the result showed that fiber failure and inter fiber failure did not occur under every possible condition of the analysis. As a result, power performance and structural integrity of 2 MW blade designed in this study turned out to satisfy the initial design goals.
Keywords
Wind Turbine; Blade Design; CFD; FEA; FSI;
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