Professional Documents
Culture Documents
GT2013
June 3-7, 2013, San Antonio, Texas, USA
GT2013-94979
NOMENCLATURE
A Weibull distribution scale parameter INTRODUCTION
AEP Annual energy production Recently, fuelled by offshore and urban wind turbine
AoA Angle of Attack applications, interest in vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT)
α Inflow Angle technology is increasing after their development almost ceased
α0 Blade twist angle in the mid 90’s [1]. VAWTs offer some distinct advantages in
BEM Blade Element Momentum the aforementioned applications over horizontal axis wind
−1
π
8π r 2 1
2
sin θ W
2
(4)
Nc −∫π cosθ
uup = C N cosθ − CT cos δ V 2 dθ
up
2
C N = Cl cos α + Cd sin α
(5)
CT = Cl sin α − Cd cos α Fig.6 Comparison of DMS results for the Sandia 17m
turbine to measured and simulated data
The AoA depends on the azimuthal angle, blade geometry, the
local TSR and the relative velocity: To validate the implemented algorithms the predicted
performance of the 2 bladed Sandia 17 m turbine [22] was
compared to measured and simulated performance data from the
rω V
α = sin −1 cos θ cos δ cos α 0 − − sin θ sin α 0 up (6)
CARDAA [20] code (Fig.6). The comparison shows good
V W agreement between the two similar codes and the measured
up data, the differences between the two codes might be due to
different polar data used during the simulation or small
with the relative velocity: differences of the implementation, iteration or discretization.
All other resulting simulation variables were compared to
2 published [20] CARDAA results and show similar distributions.
rω
W = Vup − sin θ + cos 2 θ cos 2 δ (7)
V
up