Journal
RENEWABLE ENERGY
Volume 147, Issue -, Pages 223-238Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2019.08.125
Keywords
Wind turbine; Aerodynamics; Tip loss; BEM
Funding
- China Scholarship Council
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51506088]
- National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) [2014CB046200]
- Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions
- Key Laboratory of Wind Energy Utilization, Chinese Academy of Sciences [KLWEU-2016-0102]
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The tip loss is an important phenomenon in wind turbine aerodynamics and has to be modelled separately in the blade element momentum (BEM) method for predicting the wind turbine aerodynamic performance. Instead of following the conventional trend of thought, the present study for the first time regards the interference factors as a summation of two parts. One is determined by the downwash due to the three-dimensional effect and the other is determined by rotation. Two corresponding factors of F-S and F-R are proposed to represent the effects of the two parts, respectively. This way of consideration implies a new model for the BEM method, providing appropriate tip loss predictions. The new model is validated in BEM computations of the NREL Phase VI rotor, the Swedish WG 500 rotor, and the NREL 5 MW reference rotor, with a radius of 2.675 m, 5.029 m and 63 m, respectively. It shows a good accuracy in a wide range of tip speed ratios from 1.58 to 11.3, and presents a good robustness in the cases involving high angles of attack and in the cases involving high axial interference factors. That makes the new model attractive for tip loss correction in BEM. (C) 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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