Aeroelastic Optimization of a 10 MW Wind Turbine Blade with Active Trailing Edge Flaps

Athanasios Barlas; Carlo Tibaldi; Frederik Zahle; Helge Aagaard Madsen

doi:10.2514/6.2016-1262

Aeroelastic Optimization of a 10 MW Wind Turbine Blade with Active Trailing Edge Flaps

Athanasios Barlas, Carlo Tibaldi, Frederik Zahle, Helge Aagaard Madsen

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This article presents the aeroelastic optimization of a 10MW wind turbine ‘smart blade’ equipped with active trailing edge flaps. The multi-disciplinary wind turbine analysis and optimization tool HawtOpt2 is utilized, which is based on the open-source framework Open-MDAO. The tool interfaces to several state-of-the art simulation codes, allowing for a wide variety of problem formulations and combinations of models. A simultaneous aerodynamic and structural optimization of a 10 MW wind turbine rotor is carried out with respect to material layups and outer shape. Active trailing edge flaps are integrated in the design taking into account their achieved fatigue load reduction. The optimized ‘smart blade’ design is compared to an aeroelastically optimized design with no flaps and the baseline design.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 34th Wind Energy Symposium
Publisher	American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Publication date	2016
Article number	AIAA 2016-1262
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2016-1262
Publication status	Published - 2016
Event	34th Wind Energy Symposium - San Diego, United States Duration: 4 Jan 2016 → 8 Jan 2016 Conference number: 34 http://arc.aiaa.org/doi/book/10.2514/MWES16

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Conference	34th Wind Energy Symposium
Number	34
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Diego
Period	04/01/2016 → 08/01/2016
Internet address	http://arc.aiaa.org/doi/book/10.2514/MWES16

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Aeroelastic Optimization of a 10 MW Wind Turbine Blade with Active Trailing Edge Flaps. / Barlas, Athanasios; Tibaldi, Carlo; Zahle, Frederik et al.
Proceedings of the 34th Wind Energy Symposium. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2016. AIAA 2016-1262.

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