Aerodynamic characteristics of wind turbine blade airfoils

Aerodynamic characteristics of wind turbine blade airfoils

Timmer, W.A. (TU Delft Wind Energy)
Bak, Christian (Technical University of Denmark)

2023

This chapter focuses on airfoils for wind turbine blades and their characteristics. The use of panel codes such as XFOIL and RFOIL and CFD codes for the prediction of airfoil characteristics is briefly described. This chapter then discusses the requirements for wind turbine blade airfoils and the effect of leading edge roughness and Reynolds number. After a description of how airfoils can be tested, this chapter discusses methods to represent airfoil characteristics at high angles of attack. A number of methods for correcting characteristics for the effect of three-dimensional flow on the blade are presented. This chapter then discusses ways to establish a data set for blade design and concludes with a view on future research in the field of wind turbine blade airfoils.

High angles of attack
Leading edge roughness
Stall delay
Wind turbine airfoil characteristics

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:b26965a9-01fa-4a68-b3ca-a8adc15ce730

https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-103007-3.00011-2

Elsevier

2023-07-01

9780081030080

Advances in Wind Turbine Blade Design and Materials

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