Aerodynamic design of wind turbine blades considering manufacturing constraints

Nearchos Stylianidis; Terence Macquart; Alireza Maheri

doi:10.1109/EFEA.2014.7059984

Aerodynamic design of wind turbine blades considering manufacturing constraints

Nearchos Stylianidis, Terence Macquart, Alireza Maheri

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The present paper investigates the aerodynamic design of wind turbine blades while considering manufacturing constraints. Blade topologies achieved by unconstrained optimisation methods are likely to lose optimality after manufacturing simplifications are applied. The present paper proposes and evaluates the performance of an optimisation method for wind turbine blades while considering manufacturing constraints. The optimal solution achieved this way is manufacturing-ready. In addition, integrating manufacturing design knowledge into the optimisation is shown to significantly reduce the design space, and therefore the time taken by the optimisation algorithm. While the proposed method herein is described for a standalone aerodynamic optimisation, it can also be used for aero-structural optimisations.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	3rd International Symposium on Environmental Friendly Energies and Applications (EFEA)
Publisher	IEEE Press
Pages	1-6
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781479975174
ISBN (Print)	9781479975181
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/EFEA.2014.7059984
Publication status	Published - Nov 2014
Event	3rd International Symposium on Environmental Friendly Energies and Applications (EFEA) - Paris, France Duration: 19 Nov 2014 → 21 Nov 2014

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Conference	3rd International Symposium on Environmental Friendly Energies and Applications (EFEA)
Country/Territory	France
City	Paris
Period	19/11/14 → 21/11/14

Keywords

optimisation
aerodynamic design
wind turbine
chord linearisation
aerofoil blending

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Stylianidis, N, Macquart, T & Maheri, A 2014, Aerodynamic design of wind turbine blades considering manufacturing constraints. in 3rd International Symposium on Environmental Friendly Energies and Applications (EFEA). IEEE Press, pp. 1-6, 3rd International Symposium on Environmental Friendly Energies and Applications (EFEA) , Paris, France, 19/11/14. https://doi.org/10.1109/EFEA.2014.7059984

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