The NREL large-scale turbine inflow and response experiment - Preliminary results

ASME 2002 Wind Energy Symposium, WIND2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 412-426

  Kelley, Neil ^a   Hand, Maureen ^a   Larwood, Scott ^a   McKenna, Ed ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROELASTICITY; ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; TURBULENCE; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

LARGE SCALE WIND TURBINES; NATIONAL WIND TECHNOLOGY CENTERS; OPERATING ENVIRONMENT; SCALING PARAMETER; SONIC ANEMOMETER; STRUCTURAL RESPONSE; TURBULENCE PROPERTIES; TURBULENCE SIMULATION;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0347327504     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/wind2002-64     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (15)

1. Veers, P.S., Three-Dimensional Wind Simulation, SAND88-0152, Albuquerque, NM: Sandia National Laboratories, March 1988.
2. Kelley, N.D., "The Identification of Inflow Dynamics Parameters That Can Be Used to Scale Fatigue Loading Spectra of Wind Turbine Structural Components," NREL/TP-442-6008, Golden, CO: National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 1994.
3. Kelley, N.D., "Turbulence Descriptors for Scaling Fatigue Loading Spectra of Wind Turbine Structural Components," NREL/TP-442-7035, Golden, CO: National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 1994.
4. Kelley, N.D., "A Case for Including Atmospheric Thermodynamic Variables in Wind Turbine Fatigue Loading Parameter Identification," NREL/CP-500-26829, Golden, CO: National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 1999.
5. Sutherland, H.J., and Kelley, N.D., "Fatigue Damage Estimate Comparisons for Northern European and U.S. Wind Farm Loading Environments," WindPower '95. Proc. Of the Annual Conference and Exhibition of the American Wind Energy Assoc., Washington, DC: American Wind Energy Association, 1995.
6. Kelley, N.D., "Full Vector (3-D) Inflow Simulation in Natural and Wind Farm Environments Using an Expanded Version of the SNLWIND (Veers) Turbulence Code," NREL/TP-442-5225, Golden, CO: National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 1993.
7. Kelley, N.D., Wright, A.D., Buhl, M.L., and Tangler, J.L., "Long-Term Simulation of Turbulence-Induced Loads Using the SNLWIND-3D, FAST, YawDyn, and ADAMS Numerical Codes," NREL/CP-4400-21673, Golden, CO: National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 1996.
8. Kelley, N.D., and Sutherland, H.J., "Damage Estimates from Long-Term Structural Analysis of a Wind Turbine in a U.S. Wind Farm Environment," NREL/CP-440-21672, Golden, CO: National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 1997.
9. Kelley, N.D., Wright, A.D., and Osgood, R.M., "A Progress Report on the Characterization and Modeling of a Very Flexible Turbine Design," NREL/CP-500-25513, Golden, CO: National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 1998.
10. Kelley, N.D., Osgood, R.M., Biatasiewicz, J.T., and Jakubowski, A., "Using Wavelet Analysis to Assess Turbulence/Rotor Interactions," Wind Energy, Vol. 3, London: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., p. 121-134, 2000.
11. Banta, R.M., Olivier, L.D., Neff, W.D., Levinson, D.H., and Ruffieux, D., "Influence of Canyon-Induced Flows on Flow and Dispersion over Adjacent Plains," Theoretical Applied Climatology, Vol. 52, p. 27-42, 1995. (Pubitemid 27002605)
12. Petersen, J.E., Martin/Martin Consulting Engineers, Personal communications.
13. Haun, M.C., Kelley, N.D., and McKenna, H.E., "Increasing Turbine System Flexibility with NI LabVIEW," Instrumentation Newsletter, Vol. 13, No.2, National Instruments Corp., p. 12, 2001.
14. Simms, D., "NREL Unsteady Aero Experiment: Aerodynamic Pressure Measurements from a Rotating S809 Airfoil on a 10m Diameter 3-Bladed Downwind HAWT." McAnulty, K.F., ed. IEA R&D WECS Experts Meeting: Proceedings of the Sixth IEA Symposium on the Aerodynamics of Wind Turbines, 30 November-1 December 1992, Petten, The Netherlands. United Kingdom: Harwell; 16 pp., 1993.
15. Marht, L., "Stratified Atmospheric Boundary Layers," Boundary-Layer Meteorology, Vol. 90, p. 375-396, 1999.