European Wind Energy Conference and Exhibition 2010 Warsaw, Poland EWEC 2010 Warsaw 20-23 April 2010 Aeroelastic Analysis of Pre-Curved Rotor Blades V.A.Riziotis ,S.G.Voutsinas and D.I. Manolas National Technical University of Athens School of Mechanical Engineering Fluids Section E.S. Politis and P. K. Chaviaropoulos Centre for Renewable Energy Sources Wind Energy Section
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European Wind Energy Conference and Exhibition
2010Warsaw, Poland
EWEC 2010 Warsaw 20-23 April 2010
Aeroelastic Analysis of Pre-Curved Rotor Blades
V.A.Riziotis ,S.G.Voutsinas and D.I. Manolas
National Technical University of Athens School of Mechanical Engineering
Fluids Section
E.S. Politis and P. K. Chaviaropoulos
Centre for Renewable Energy Sources Wind Energy Section
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Outline
• Rationale of pre-curving rotor blades• Objectives of the work• Alternative structural modeling of pre-curved blades
– 2nd order beam theory– Multi-body formulation
• Comparative results for the 5MW reference wind turbine• Conclusions• Outlook
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Rationale of pre-curving
• Fore pre-bending has been originally introduced in order to increase the blade-tower clearance
• However analysis has shown that pre-curving the rotor blades activates flap-torsion coupling which can be very beneficial in mitigating loads
• Flap-torsion coupling can be also achieved by structural tailoring as indicated in recent research at Sandia Laboratories
• The underlying mechanism is that as the outer part of the blade bends; it also twists so that the angles of attack get lower and therefore the aerodynamic loads decrease
• Load reduction is always important due to its direct impact on the cost of energy (e.g. lowering the loads allows the increase of rotor diameter for the same given strength)
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• Formulation of suitable formulations based on existing structural models, namely: – Hodges’ 2nd order beam theory and
– multi-body modelling
• Identification of the additional coupling terms in the structural loads
• Comparative analysis of aeroelastic simulations
• Assessment of the various pre-curved blade concepts
Objectives of the work
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Alternative structural formulations
• Pre-curvature will generate a distributed change of the orientation of the beam sections which should be taken into account in the kinematics
• Stresses will be re-orientated resulting in a modification of the blade loading including additional couplings which allow load mitigation
• The structural formulation becomes non-linear even though the material properties remain linear
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2nd order beam model
x
z
y
η0, s
ξ0
ξ
ζ0
ζη, s
ze(s)
v(s)
u(s)
w(s)+ze(s)
undeformed
deformed
x
z
w(s)+ze(s)
u(s)
ξ
ζ
θt+θ(s)O
O1
O’
0 u(s)
y(s) v(s) u , w , 0
0 w(s)
r = E( )
ez s non-linear
Ze: the pre-bendings
e
0
ˆ(s) (s) u (s) (w (s) z (s)) ds
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Multi-body modelling has been introduced in order to take into account non-linear dynamics
The same approach can be also used in order to approximate large displacements along the blade
To this end the blade (major body) is divided into “sub-bodies” each considered as an independent component
Non-linear matching of loading and kinematics is assumed at the connection points
Multi-body modelling
x
y
ξ
ζ η
ρ(q)
sub-body
major body
ξ
ζ η
communicates loads to the
previous sub-body
receives rotations and translations
A(q)
u
v u , w , 0
w
k lr E
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Coupling terms
Bending-torsion coupling on pre-bent blades
2 2t
t
1 ˆEI EI sin(2 ( )) u w2
ˆEI EI cos(2 ( )) u w
2t e
2t t t t e
t e
t t t t e
t
1 ˆEI EI sin(2 ( )) z2
ˆ ˆEI cos sin( ) EI sin cos( ) z
ˆEI EI cos(2 ( )) u z
ˆ ˆEI cos cos( ) EI sin sin( ) u z
ˆEI EI sin(2 ( )) w
e
t t t t e
z
ˆ ˆEI cos sin( ) EI sin cos( ) w z
In case of large bending deflections additional non-linear terms will become significant:
• The aeroelastic behaviour of pre-curved blades is analysed using two models: a 2nd order beam model and a multi-body model
• The 2nd order model is formulated with respect to the pre-curved blade geometry while the second is based on multi-body modelling
• Both models take into account the orientation changes along the blade. In the 2nd order model however the additional terms will appear explicitly while in the multi-body model the modifications are implicitly seen only in the results
• Comparison of the two models indicates the consistency of the ordering scheme followed in the 2nd order model
Conclusions
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• Fore pre-bend besides increasing the blade-tower clearance, reduces torsion loads and increases blade stability
• Aft pre-bend is meaningless because it reduces the clearance of upwind rotors but also reduces the damping of the low damped edgewise modes.
• Pre-sweep of blades drives flapwise bending/torsion coupling.
• Aft pre-sweep gives rise to nose down torsion deformation and leads to reduced fatigue loads.
• The opposite effect is obtained for forward sweep.
Conclusions
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This work was partly funded by the European Commission and by the Greek Secretariat for Research and Technology under contract SES6