Wind turbine wakes and helicopter operations

Wind turbine wakes and helicopter operations: An overview of the Garteur HC-AG23 activities

Bakker, Richard (Royal Netherlands Aerospace Centre NLR)
Visingardi, Antonio (CIRA)
van der Wall, Berend G. (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR))
Voutsinas, Spyros (National Technical University of Athens)
Basset, Pierre-Marie (Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aerospatiales)
Campagnolo, Filippo (Technische Universität München)
Pavel, M.D. (TU Delft Control & Simulation)
Barakos, George (University of Glasgow)
White, Mark (University of Liverpool)

Hermans, C. (editor)

2018

The effects of a wind turbine wake on General Aviation and the behaviour of helicopters in the tip vortex of large fixed-wing aircraft has been topic of research in the past years, but less is known about the interactions of helicopters operating in a wind turbine wake. A dedicated GARTEUR Action Group, HC-AG23, consisting of European universities and research institutes was formed to investigate helicopter behaviour in a wind turbine wake and to study the consequences for helicopter handling and safety of flight. The activities are structured in work packages addressing wind turbine wake identification, wake experiments and computations, offline and piloted simulations and management and dissemination activities. This paper presents an over-view of the partners’ activities and provides a short overview of the results that have been achieved in the past three years.

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Proceedings of the 44th European Rotorcraft Forum: Delft, The Netherlands, 2018

44th European Rotorcraft Forum, 2018-09-18 → 2018-09-21, Delft, Netherlands

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© 2018 Richard Bakker, Antonio Visingardi, Berend G. van der Wall, Spyros Voutsinas, Pierre-Marie Basset, Filippo Campagnolo, M.D. Pavel, George Barakos, Mark White