Articles | Volume 8, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1625-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1625-2023
Research article
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27 Oct 2023
Research article |  | 27 Oct 2023

Forced-motion simulations of vortex-induced vibrations of wind turbine blades – a study of sensitivities

Christian Grinderslev, Felix Houtin-Mongrolle, Niels Nørmark Sørensen, Georg Raimund Pirrung, Pim Jacobs, Aqeel Ahmed, and Bastien Duboc

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IEA-10.0-198-RWT IEA Wind Task 37 https://github.com/IEAWindTask37/IEA-10.0-198-RWT

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In standstill conditions wind turbines are at risk of vortex-induced vibrations (VIVs). VIVs can become large and lead to significant fatigue of the wind turbine structure over time. Thus it is important to have tools that can accurately compute this complex phenomenon. This paper studies the sensitivities to the chosen models of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations when modelling VIVs and finds that much care is needed when setting up simulations, especially for specific flow angles.
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