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Abstract
Background: Manufacturing and assembly tolerances may cause wind turbine (WT) energy production to differ significantly from nominal design targets.
Issue can be alleviated in two ways: A. Reducing tolerances. This may be expensive. B. Developing reliable and computationally affordable robust analysis and design optimization technologies. Robust WT rotor is one yielding minimal variations of aerodynamic performance arising due to errors affecting rotor geometry.
Objectives: To develop/demonstrate computational framework for the robust design optimization of WT rotors. Main aim is to 1) maximize expectation and 2) minimize standard deviation of yearly energy production. Highlight computational effectiveness of the Univariate Reduced Quadrature approach to ‘deterministic’ uncertainty propagation. Highlight capabilities of a recently developed multi-level evolution-based optimizer.
Issue can be alleviated in two ways: A. Reducing tolerances. This may be expensive. B. Developing reliable and computationally affordable robust analysis and design optimization technologies. Robust WT rotor is one yielding minimal variations of aerodynamic performance arising due to errors affecting rotor geometry.
Objectives: To develop/demonstrate computational framework for the robust design optimization of WT rotors. Main aim is to 1) maximize expectation and 2) minimize standard deviation of yearly energy production. Highlight computational effectiveness of the Univariate Reduced Quadrature approach to ‘deterministic’ uncertainty propagation. Highlight capabilities of a recently developed multi-level evolution-based optimizer.
| Original language | English |
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| Number of pages | 28 |
| Publication status | Published - 13 Sept 2012 |
| Event | 10th Aerodynamic Design Optimisation Seminar, ADOS 2012 - Derby, United Kingdom Duration: 13 Sept 2012 → 14 Sept 2012 |
Conference
| Conference | 10th Aerodynamic Design Optimisation Seminar, ADOS 2012 |
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| Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
| City | Derby |
| Period | 13/09/12 → 14/09/12 |
Keywords
- aerodynamic design
- aerodynamic optimisation
- variable speed
- wind turbine rotors
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Aerodynamic design optimization of wind turbine airfoils under aleatory and epistemic uncertainty
Caboni, M., Minisci, E. & Riccardi, A., 1 Jun 2018, In: Journal of Physics: Conference Series . 1037, 4, 10 p., 042011.Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference Contribution › peer-review
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