• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.465-465
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• 2009

Wind power is one of the most reliable renewable energy sources and the installed wind turbine capacities are increasing radically every year. Although wind power has been favored by the public in general, the problem with the impact of wind turbine noise on people living in the vicinity of the turbines has been increased. Low noise wind turbine design is becoming more important as noise is spreading more adverse effect of wind turbine to public. This paper demonstrates the design of 10 kW class wind turbines, each of three blades, a rotor diameter 6.4m, a rated rotating speed 200 rpm and a rated wind speed 10 m/s. The optimized airfoil is dedicated for the 75% spanwise position because the dominant source of a wind turbine blade has been known as trailing edge noise from the outer 25% of the blade. Numerical computations are performed for incompressible flow and for Mach number at 0.145 and for Reynolds numbers at $1.02{\times}10^6$ with a lift performance, which is resistant to surface contamination and turbulence intensity. The objective in the low design process is to reduce noise emission, while sustaining high aerodynamic efficiency. Dominant broadband noise sources are predicted by semi-empirical formulas composed of the groundwork by Brooks et al. and Lowson associated with typical wind turbine operation conditions. During the airfoil redesign process, the aerodynamic performance is analyzed to minimize the wind turbine power loss. The results obtained from the design process show that the design method is capable of designing airfoils with reduced noise using a commercial 10 kW class wind turbine blade airfoil as a basis. The new optimized airfoil clearly indicates reduction of total SPL about 3 dB and higher aerodynamic performance.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.62.2-62.2
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• 2011

This study predicted broadband noise from a generic 2.5MW wind turbine blade in the time domain. The rotor blade was modeled as thin rectangular flat plates. A simplified analytic model proposed by Amiet was used to model the unsteady surface pressure distribution. The acoustic pressure was calculated by using the loading term of Formulation 1A proposed by Farassat. The validation was also performed by comparing with an experiment of Brooks, Pope, and Marcolini. By using these numerical methods, the broadband noise signal of the wind turbine was successfully predicted in this study.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 1995.04a
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• pp.354-359
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• 1995

회전익의 소재로 복합재료를 선택하게 됨에 따라 헬리콥터의 유지, 보수 및 성능에서 유리하게 되었지만 허브 형태의 간소화로 인하여 해석상의 어려움은 확대 되었다고 할 수 있을 것이다. 따라서 회전익의 단면특성은 더욱 중요한 의미를 갖게 되었다. 회전익의 단면특성을 결정하기 위해서 우선적으로 각 방향운동의 연성항을 소거하는 것이 계산상 유리하고 따라서 관성주축방향을 결정하는 것이 중요하다. 그러나 회전익의 익형이 대칭형이 아니고 복합한 재료로 구성되어 있을 뿐 아니라 효율의 극대화를 위하여 축방향을 따라 비틀림을 부여하고 있기 때문에 관성주축의 방향을 결정하는데 많은 어려움이 존재한다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 실제 회전익을 그 연구 대상으로 회전익 단면의 등가강성행렬을 추출하고 외팔보의 공학이론과 회전행렬을 이용하는 방법으로 관성주축방향을 결정하는 방법을 제시하였다. 해석방법의 타당성을 확보하기 위하여 엄밀해를 알고 있는 간단해 단면을 갖는 외팔보를 이용하여 검증하였다. 이러한 방법은 관성주축방향을 결정하는 새로운 프로그램의 개발이라는 부담을 최소화 하였을 뿐 아니라, 해석방법 자체가 가지는 간편성으로 인하여 많은 시간과 노력을 줄일수 있을 것으로 기대된다.