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https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2-443-2017
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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
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, USA
currently at: Siemens Wind Power, Inc., Boulder, CO, USA
Jason Jonkman
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, USA
Ryan Sievers
Siemens Wind Power, Inc., Boulder, CO, USA
Michael A. Sprague
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, USA
Scott Schreck
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, USA
Qi Wang
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, USA
currently at: Siemens Wind Power, Inc., Boulder, CO, USA
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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.
This paper presents a validation and code-to-code verification of the U.S. Dept of Energy/NREL...
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