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Ernesto Benini - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • optimization of a darrieus vertical axis wind turbine using blade element Momentum Theory and evolutionary algorithm
    Renewable Energy, 2013
    Co-Authors: Gabriele Bedon, Marco Raciti Castelli, Ernesto Benini
    Abstract:

    Wind turbine design procedures usually involve the adoption of the blade element – Momentum Theory. Nevertheless, its use is limited by the lack of extended database regarding the aerodynamic coefficients for most used airfoils. In the present work, an extended database generation procedure for symmetric profiles is discussed and validated with the aim of adopting numerical optimization methods for vertical-axis wind turbine design.

  • optimization of a darrieus vertical axis wind turbine using blade element Momentum Theory and evolutionary algorithm
    Renewable Energy, 2013
    Co-Authors: Gabriele Bedon, Marco Raciti Castelli, Ernesto Benini
    Abstract:

    Abstract Wind turbine design procedures usually involve the adoption of the blade element – Momentum Theory. Nevertheless, its use is limited by the lack of extended database regarding the aerodynamic coefficients for most used airfoils. In the present work, an extended database generation procedure for symmetric profiles is discussed and validated with the aim of adopting numerical optimization methods for vertical-axis wind turbine design. Evolutionary algorithms are thereby utilized to provide optimal configurations for different design objectives. The pure performance and the annual energy production are here considered in order to show the capabilities of the numerical code. A relevant increase in performance is achieved for all the obtained results, showing that the numerical optimization can be successfully adopted in vertical-axis wind turbine design procedures.

Gabriele Bedon - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • optimization of a darrieus vertical axis wind turbine using blade element Momentum Theory and evolutionary algorithm
    Renewable Energy, 2013
    Co-Authors: Gabriele Bedon, Marco Raciti Castelli, Ernesto Benini
    Abstract:

    Wind turbine design procedures usually involve the adoption of the blade element – Momentum Theory. Nevertheless, its use is limited by the lack of extended database regarding the aerodynamic coefficients for most used airfoils. In the present work, an extended database generation procedure for symmetric profiles is discussed and validated with the aim of adopting numerical optimization methods for vertical-axis wind turbine design.

  • optimization of a darrieus vertical axis wind turbine using blade element Momentum Theory and evolutionary algorithm
    Renewable Energy, 2013
    Co-Authors: Gabriele Bedon, Marco Raciti Castelli, Ernesto Benini
    Abstract:

    Abstract Wind turbine design procedures usually involve the adoption of the blade element – Momentum Theory. Nevertheless, its use is limited by the lack of extended database regarding the aerodynamic coefficients for most used airfoils. In the present work, an extended database generation procedure for symmetric profiles is discussed and validated with the aim of adopting numerical optimization methods for vertical-axis wind turbine design. Evolutionary algorithms are thereby utilized to provide optimal configurations for different design objectives. The pure performance and the annual energy production are here considered in order to show the capabilities of the numerical code. A relevant increase in performance is achieved for all the obtained results, showing that the numerical optimization can be successfully adopted in vertical-axis wind turbine design procedures.

M Kibler - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Marco Raciti Castelli - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • optimization of a darrieus vertical axis wind turbine using blade element Momentum Theory and evolutionary algorithm
    Renewable Energy, 2013
    Co-Authors: Gabriele Bedon, Marco Raciti Castelli, Ernesto Benini
    Abstract:

    Wind turbine design procedures usually involve the adoption of the blade element – Momentum Theory. Nevertheless, its use is limited by the lack of extended database regarding the aerodynamic coefficients for most used airfoils. In the present work, an extended database generation procedure for symmetric profiles is discussed and validated with the aim of adopting numerical optimization methods for vertical-axis wind turbine design.

  • optimization of a darrieus vertical axis wind turbine using blade element Momentum Theory and evolutionary algorithm
    Renewable Energy, 2013
    Co-Authors: Gabriele Bedon, Marco Raciti Castelli, Ernesto Benini
    Abstract:

    Abstract Wind turbine design procedures usually involve the adoption of the blade element – Momentum Theory. Nevertheless, its use is limited by the lack of extended database regarding the aerodynamic coefficients for most used airfoils. In the present work, an extended database generation procedure for symmetric profiles is discussed and validated with the aim of adopting numerical optimization methods for vertical-axis wind turbine design. Evolutionary algorithms are thereby utilized to provide optimal configurations for different design objectives. The pure performance and the annual energy production are here considered in order to show the capabilities of the numerical code. A relevant increase in performance is achieved for all the obtained results, showing that the numerical optimization can be successfully adopted in vertical-axis wind turbine design procedures.

Jens Nørkær Sørensen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • blade element Momentum Theory
    2016
    Co-Authors: Jens Nørkær Sørensen
    Abstract:

    Although there exists a large variety of methods for predicting performance and loadings of wind turbines, the only approach used today by wind turbine manufacturers is based on the blade-element/Momentum (BEM) Theory by Glauert (Aerodynamic Theory. Springer, Berlin, pp. 169–360, 1935). A basic assumption in the BEM Theory is that the flow takes place in independent stream tubes and that the loading is determined from two-dimensional sectional airfoil characteristics.

  • general Momentum Theory for horizontal axis wind turbines
    2015
    Co-Authors: Jens Nørkær Sørensen
    Abstract:

    Introduction.- Basic Definitions.- One-dimensional Axial Momentum Theory.- The General Momentum Theory.- Optimum Rotor Performance Based on Momentum Theory.- Detailed Analysis of the Joukowsky Model.- Blade-Element/Momentum Theory.- The Tip Correction.- The Finite-bladed Betz Rotor.

  • General Momentum Theory for wind turbines at low tip speed ratios
    Wind Energy, 2010
    Co-Authors: Jens Nørkær Sørensen, Gijs Van Kuik
    Abstract:

    General Momentum Theory is used to study the behaviour of the ‘classical’ free vortex wake model of Joukowsky. This model has recently attained considerable attention as it shows the possibility of achieving a power performance that greatly exceeds the Lanchester-Betz limit for rotors running at low tip speed ratios. This behaviour is confirmed even when including the effect of a centre vortex, allowing azimuthal velocities and the associated radial pressure gradient to be taken into account in the axial Momentum balance without any simplifying assumptions. It is shown that the most likely explanation for the anomalous behaviour at small tip speed ratios is that the influence of the lateral component of pressure and friction is neglected in the axial Momentum theorem. A refined model is proposed that remedies the problem of using the axial Momentum theorem and by which the power coefficient never exceeds the Lanchester-Betz limit and which tends to zero at zero tip speed ratio. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

  • analysis of wake states by a full field actuator disc model
    Wind Energy, 1998
    Co-Authors: Jens Nørkær Sørensen, Wen Zhong Shen, X. Munduate
    Abstract:

    Various wake status have been analysed by a numerical method that combines the actuator disc principle with the Navier–Stokes equations. Results are compared with one-dimensional Momentum Theory and experiments. The computations are in excellent agreement with one-dimensional Momentum Theory for rotors working in the windmill brake state as well as in the propeller and hover states. The computations demonstrate that the turbulent wake and vortex ring states are unstable regimes for a rotor with constant loading and that these states, after a complicated transient phase, settle to a steady state. Copyright © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

  • a model for unsteady rotor aerodynamics
    Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, 1995
    Co-Authors: Jens Nørkær Sørensen, Carsten Weber Kock
    Abstract:

    Abstract An aerodynamic model for the simulation of unsteady flow past rotors of wind turbines is presented. The model consists of solving the unsteady, axisymmetric Euler or Navier-Stokes equations by a finite-difference method subject to volume forces determined from tabulated airfoil data. Results are compared to the blade-element Momentum Theory and experiments for the cases of a rotor with a prescribed constant normal load and steady as well as unsteady flows past the 2 MW Tjaereborg wind turbine. The model is found to be in better agreement with measurements than the Momentum Theory and in particular excellent agreement is obtained with dynamic in-flow phenomena from measured pitching transients.