Fluid-structure coupled computations of the NREL 5MW wind turbine blade during standstill

The Science of Making Torque from Wind

Dose, B.^1 ; Rahimi, H.^1 ; Herráez, I.^1 ; Stoevesandt, B.^2 ; Peinke, J.^1,2

ForWind, Institute of Physics, University of Oldenburg, Ammerlander Heerstr.114-118, Oldenburg

26129, Germany^1

Fraunhofer IWES, Ammerlander Heerstr.136, Oldenburg

26129, Germany^2

关键词: Blade element momentum theory;    Coupled computations;    Elastic behavior;    Fluid-structures;    Geometrically exact beams;    State of the art;    Wind turbine blades;    Wind turbine simulation;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/753/2/022034/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1742-6596/753/2/022034

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

This work is aimed at investigating the aero-elastic behavior of a wind turbine blade subjected to strong wind speeds during standstill. This type of investigation still remains a challenge for most wind turbine simulation codes. For this purpose, a new developed high fidelity framework for fluid-structure coupled computations of wind turbines is presented and numerical simulations are conducted on the NREL 5MW reference wind turbine. The framework couples the open-source Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) toolbox OpenFOAM with an in-house beam solver, based on the Geometrically Exact Beam Theory (GEBT). The obtained results are compared to the aero-elastic tool FAST, which is based on the Blade Element Momentum theory (BEM) and can be considered as a state-of-the-art wind turbine simulation code. The evaluation of the fluid-structure coupled CFD simulations reveals clear differences in the results compared to FAST. While the mean deflections show a reasonable agreement, the dynamics of the edgewise deflections differ significantly. Furthermore, the effect of an explicit coupling versus an implicit coupling strategy on the results is investigated.