A computational procedure for prebending of wind turbine blades

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 323-336

  Bazilevs, Y ^a   Hsu, M C ^a   Kiendl, J ^b   Benson, D J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blade prebending; Composites; Computational fluid dynamics; Computational structural mechanics; Fluid structure interaction; Inverse deformation; Isogeometric analysis; Offshore wind; Thin shells; Wind turbine blade; Wind turbine rotor

Indexed keywords

BLADE PREBENDING; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID; COMPUTATIONAL STRUCTURAL MECHANICS; ISOGEOMETRIC ANALYSIS; OFFSHORE WINDS; THIN SHELLS; WIND TURBINE BLADE; WIND TURBINE ROTOR;

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION; FLUIDS; RIGID ROTORS; STRESSES; WIND TURBINES;

TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

EID: 84655163516     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.3244     Document Type: Article

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