Articles | Volume 7, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-1957-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-1957-2022
Research article
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10 Oct 2022
Research article |  | 10 Oct 2022

Atmospheric rotating rig testing of a swept blade tip and comparison with multi-fidelity aeroelastic simulations

Thanasis Barlas, Georg Raimund Pirrung, Néstor Ramos-García, Sergio González Horcas, Ang Li, and Helge Aagaard Madsen

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Parametric Geometric Library (PGL) F. Zahle https://gitlab.windenergy.dtu.dk/frza/PGL

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An aeroelastically optimized curved wind turbine blade tip is designed, manufactured, and tested on a novel outdoor rotating rig facility at the Risø campus of the Technical University of Denmark. Detailed aerodynamic measurements for various atmospheric conditions and results are compared to a series of in-house aeroelastic tools with a range of fidelities in aerodynamic modeling. The comparison highlights details in the ability of the codes to predict the performance of such a curved tip.
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