Articles | Volume 6, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-6-903-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-6-903-2021
Research article
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10 Jun 2021
Research article |  | 10 Jun 2021

A method for preliminary rotor design – Part 1: Radially Independent Actuator Disc model

Kenneth Loenbaek, Christian Bak, Jens I. Madsen, and Michael McWilliam

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ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (10 Mar 2021) by Alessandro Bianchini
RR by Peter Jamieson (11 Mar 2021)
RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (12 Mar 2021)
ED: Publish as is (12 Mar 2021) by Alessandro Bianchini
ED: Publish as is (16 Mar 2021) by Joachim Peinke (Chief editor)
AR by Kenneth Loenbaek on behalf of the Authors (18 Mar 2021)
Short summary
We present a model for assessing the aerodynamic performance of a wind turbine rotor through a different parametrization of the classical blade element momentum model. The model establishes an analytical relationship between the loading in the flow direction and the power along the rotor span. The main benefit of the model is the ease with which it can be applied for rotor optimization and especially load constraint power optimization.
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