Aeroynamics for loads and performance of wind turbines and propellers

Authors:

  • Montgomerie Björn

Publish date: 2002-01-01

Report number: FOI-R--0604--SE

Pages: 16

Written in: English

Abstract

This documentation summarizes a method for converting two-dimensional wing profile data to usable three-dimensional data to be applied to performance and load generation for horizontal axis wind turbines and propellers. The methods described are to be seen as preliminary in a larger context where several activities cooperate to yield reliable prediction of foremost stall controlled wind turbine loading. Complementary future activities, not included in his document, are further development of the methods presented here, computer programming, exercising the program against measured data and consequential model parameter adjustment and method modification.