A validation and code-to-code verification of FAST for a megawatt-scale wind turbine with aeroelastically  tailored blades

Guntur, Srinivas; Jonkman, Jason; Sievers, Ryan; Sprague, Michael A.; Schreck, Scott; Wang, Qi

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2-443-2017

Articles | Volume 2, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2-443-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2-443-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 2, issue 2

Research article

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29 Aug 2017

Research article |

| 29 Aug 2017

A validation and code-to-code verification of FAST for a megawatt-scale wind turbine with aeroelastically tailored blades

Srinivas Guntur, Jason Jonkman, Ryan Sievers, Michael A. Sprague, Scott Schreck, and Qi Wang

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RC1: 'comments on wes-2016-42', Anonymous Referee #1, 25 Apr 2017
- AC1: 'Response to Reviewer 1: Manuscript ID wes-2016-42', Srinivas Guntur, 11 Jul 2017
RC2: 'Reviewer 2 comment', Anonymous Referee #2, 12 Jun 2017
- AC2: 'Response to Reviewer 2: Manuscript ID wes-2016-42', Srinivas Guntur, 11 Jul 2017

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (11 Jul 2017) by Gerard J.W. van Bussel

AR by Srinivas Guntur on behalf of the Authors (17 Jul 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (27 Jul 2017) by Gerard J.W. van Bussel

ED: Publish as is (27 Jul 2017) by Gerard J.W. van Bussel (Chief editor)

AR by Srinivas Guntur on behalf of the Authors (27 Jul 2017) Manuscript

Short summary

This paper presents a validation and code-to-code verification of the U.S. Dept of Energy/NREL wind turbine aeroelastic code, FAST v8, on a 2.3 MW wind turbine. Model validation is critical to any model-based research and development activity, and validation efforts on large turbines, as the current one, are extremely rare, mainly due to the scale. This paper, which was a collaboration between NREL and Siemens Wind Power, successfully demonstrates and validates the capabilities of FAST.