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https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-136
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-136
07 Nov 2024
 | 07 Nov 2024
Status: this preprint is currently under review for the journal WES.

Coleman free aero-elastic stability methods for three- and two-bladed floating wind turbines

Bogdan Pamfil, Henrik Bredmose, and Taeseong Kim

Abstract. An accurate prediction of aerodynamic damping is important for floating wind turbines, which can enter into resonant low frequency motion. Since the Coleman transform is not valid for two-bladed floating wind turbines, we here pursue methods that do not rely on it. We derive a time domain model that takes into account the dynamic stall phenomenon and which is used for developing Coleman free aero-eleastic stability analysis methods which can quantify the damping without actual simulation. It contains four structural degrees of freedom, namely the floater's pitch angle and the blade deflection amplitudes, as well as three dynamic stall aerodynamic degrees of freedom, one for each blade. The time domain model is linearized by considering part of the aerodynamic forcing as an added damping contribution. The linearized model is then made time independent through the application of Hill's or Floquet's method. This enables the possibility to carry out a stability analysis where the eigenvalues results obtained with both methods are compared. A first modal analysis serves to demonstrate the influence of aerodynamic damping through the variation of the dynamic stall time constant. Thereafter, a second modal analysis is reported as a Campbell diagram also for cross-comparison of the Hill- and Floquet- based results. Moreover, the blade degrees of freedom are converted from the rotational basis to the non-rotational one using the Coleman transform so that results in both frames can further be cross-validated. Finally, we apply the validated stability methods to a two-bladed floating wind turbine and demonstrate their functionality. The stability analysis for the two-bladed wind turbine yields new insight into the blade modal damping and is discussed with comparison to the three-bladed analysis.

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Bogdan Pamfil, Henrik Bredmose, and Taeseong Kim

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Bogdan Pamfil, Henrik Bredmose, and Taeseong Kim
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A floating wind turbine time domain model, that considers dynamic stall, is used to develop Coleman free aero-elastic stability analysis methods, namely Hill's and Floquet's. We clarify how the floater tilt is involved in the stability analysis, show damping effects of aerodynamic states, prove that results of both methods agree and can reproduce the forward and backward whirling rotor modes in a Coleman-based analysis, and demonstrate that both methods can be applied to a two-bladed rotor.
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