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E3S Web Conf.
Volume 312, 2021
76th Italian National Congress ATI (ATI 2021)
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Article Number | 08004 | |
Number of page(s) | 12 | |
Section | Systems for Sustainable Energy Generation | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202131208004 | |
Published online | 22 October 2021 |
Development and Validation of an Advanced Actuator Line Model for Wind Turbines
1 Department of Industrial Engineering (DIEF), Università degli Studi di Firenze, Via di Santa Marta 3, 50139 Firenze (Italy).
2 Convergent Science Inc, 6400 Enterprise Ln, Madison, WI 53719 (USA)
3 Convergent Science GmbH, Haupstraße 10, Linz 4040 (Austria)
* Corresponding author: alessandro.bianchini@unifi.it
As wind turbine technology proceeds towards the development of more advanced and complex machines, modelling tools with fidelity higher than the ubiquitous Blade Element Momentum (BEM) method are needed. Among them, the Actuator Line Method (ALM) stands out in terms of accuracy and computational cost. Moving from this background, an advanced ALM method has been developed within the commercial solver CONVERGE®. As elements of novelty, this tool features a Lagrangian method for sampling the local inflow velocity and a piece-wise smearing function for the force projection process. Various sub-models for both Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines (HAWTs) (e.g. the Shen tip loss correction) and Vertical Axis Wind Turbines (VAWTs) (e.g. the MIT dynamic stall model) has also been included. Aim of the research is to address the new challenges posed by modern machines. HAWTs are in fact getting larger and larger, shifting the research focus on the interaction of increasingly deformable blades with the atmosphere at the micro- and mesoscale level. VAWTs on the other hand, whose popularity has arisen in the last years, thanks to their advantages in non-conventional applications, e.g. floating offshore installations, are extremely complex machines to study, due to their inherently unsteady aerodynamics. The approach has been validated on selected test cases, i.e. the DTU 10MW turbine and a real 2-blade H-rotor, for which both high-fidelity CFD and experimental data are available.
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2021
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