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Articles | Volume 4, issue 1
Articles | Volume 4, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-4-115-2019
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https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-4-115-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 4, issue 1
Research article
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31 Jan 2019
Research article |  | 31 Jan 2019

Comparison between upwind and downwind designs of a 10 MW wind turbine rotor

Pietro Bortolotti, Abhinav Kapila, and Carlo L. Bottasso

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The paper compares upwind and downwind three-bladed configurations for a 10 MW wind turbine in terms of power and loads. For the downwind case, the study also considers a load-aligned solution with active coning. Results indicate that downwind solutions are slightly more advantageous than upwind ones, although improvements are small. Additionally, pre-alignment is difficult to achieve in practice, and the active coning solution is associated with very significant engineering challenges.
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