A multipurpose lifting-line flow solver  for arbitrary wind energy concepts

Branlard, Emmanuel; Brownstein, Ian; Strom, Benjamin; Jonkman, Jason; Dana, Scott; Baring-Gould, Edward Ian

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-455-2022

Articles | Volume 7, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-455-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-455-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 7, issue 2

Research article

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08 Mar 2022

Research article |

| 08 Mar 2022

A multipurpose lifting-line flow solver for arbitrary wind energy concepts

Emmanuel Branlard, Ian Brownstein, Benjamin Strom, Jason Jonkman, Scott Dana, and Edward Ian Baring-Gould

Model code and software

OpenFAST v3.1.0 (v3.1.0) B. Jonkman, R. M. Mudafort, A. Platt, E. Branlard, M. Sprague, J. Jonkman, G. Vijayakumar, M. Buhl, H. Ross, P. Bortolotti, M. Masciola, S. Ananthan, M. J. Schmidt, J. Rood, J., rdamiani, nrmendoza, sinolonghai, M. Hall, and rcorniglion https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6324288

Short summary

In this work, we present an aerodynamic tool that can model an arbitrary collections of wings, blades, rotors, and towers. With these functionalities, the tool can be used to study and design advanced wind energy concepts, such as horizontal-axis wind turbines, vertical-axis wind turbines, kites, or multi-rotors. This article describes the key features of the tool and presents multiple applications. Field measurements of horizontal- and vertical-axis wind turbines are used for comparison.