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Integrated Design and Experimental Validation of a Fixed-Pitch Rotor for Wind Tunnel Testing

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  • Alessandro Fontanella

    (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Via La Masa 1, 20156 Milano, Italy)

  • Giulia Da Pra

    (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Via La Masa 1, 20156 Milano, Italy)

  • Marco Belloli

    (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Via La Masa 1, 20156 Milano, Italy)

Abstract

In this paper we report about the design and validation of a 1.2 m wind turbine rotor with fixed blade pitch. The wind turbine is a scaled version of the DTU 10 MW. Integrated design of dimensional scaling laws, blade aerodynamics, and turbine control is carried out to reproduce blade loading and interaction with atmospheric boundary layer of the reference turbine, despite challenges posed by the great reduction in chord-based Reynolds number. The rotor is verified with numerical simulations in OpenFAST and wind tunnel testing. The servo-aerodynamic design approach proposed in this article is shown to be successful for small-scale wind turbine models for use in experiments about wakes and floating wind.

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  • Alessandro Fontanella & Giulia Da Pra & Marco Belloli, 2023. "Integrated Design and Experimental Validation of a Fixed-Pitch Rotor for Wind Tunnel Testing," Energies, MDPI, vol. 16(5), pages 1-15, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jeners:v:16:y:2023:i:5:p:2205-:d:1079539
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    1. Madsen, F.J. & Nielsen, T.R.L. & Kim, T. & Bredmose, H. & Pegalajar-Jurado, A. & Mikkelsen, R.F. & Lomholt, A.K. & Borg, M. & Mirzaei, M. & Shin, P., 2020. "Experimental analysis of the scaled DTU10MW TLP floating wind turbine with different control strategies," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 155(C), pages 330-346.
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