Articles | Volume 4, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-4-89-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-4-89-2019
Brief communication
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29 Jan 2019
Brief communication |  | 29 Jan 2019

Brief communication: Wind inflow observation from load harmonics – wind tunnel validation of the rotationally symmetric formulation

Marta Bertelè, Carlo L. Bottasso, and Stefano Cacciola

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This paper describes a new formulation for estimating the wind inflow at the rotor disk, based on measurements of the blade loads. The new method improves on previous formulations by exploiting the rotational symmetry of the problem. Experimental results obtained with an aeroelastically scaled model in a boundary layer wind tunnel are used for validating the proposed approach.
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