Experimental and numerical validation of active flaps for wind turbine blades

A Gomez Gonzalez; P B Enevoldsen; B Akay; T K Barlas; Andreas Fischer; H Aa Madsen

doi:10.1088/1742-6596/1037/2/022039

Experimental and numerical validation of active flaps for wind turbine blades

A Gomez Gonzalez^*, P B Enevoldsen, B Akay, T K Barlas, Andreas Fischer, H Aa Madsen

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Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy

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An industrial active flap concept for wind turbine rotor blades is validated numerically by means of CFD, as well as experimentally in a wind tunnel environment. This paper presents the numerical and experimental results, as well as a discussion regarding the testing of airfoils equipped with active flaps with a highly loaded aft portion. A conceptual implementation for an offshore wind turbine and the potential for load reduction is shown by means of aeroelastic calculations. The work presented herein is conducted within the frame of the Induflap2 project and is partially funded by the Danish funding board EUDP.

Original language	English
Article number	022039
Book series	Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Volume	1037
Issue number	2
Number of pages	10
ISSN	1742-6596
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1037/2/022039
Publication status	Published - 2018
Event	The Science of Making Torque from Wind 2018 - Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI), Milan, Italy Duration: 20 Jun 2018 → 22 Jun 2018 Conference number: 7 http://www.torque2018.org/

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Conference	The Science of Making Torque from Wind 2018
Number	7
Location	Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI)
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Milan
Period	20/06/2018 → 22/06/2018
Internet address	http://www.torque2018.org/

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