Robust aerodynamic design optimization of variable speed wind turbine rotors

Marco Caboni; Edmondo Minisci; Michele Sergio Campobasso; M. Padulo

Robust aerodynamic design optimization of variable speed wind turbine rotors

Marco Caboni, Edmondo Minisci, Michele Sergio Campobasso, M. Padulo

Mechanical And Aerospace Engineering

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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.

Original language	English
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

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Conference	10th Aerodynamic Design Optimisation Seminar, ADOS 2012
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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Minisci E Pure Robust aerodynamic design optimization of variable speed wind turbine rotors 2012Submitted manuscript, 1.34 MB

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.
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Robust aerodynamic design optimization of variable speed wind turbine rotors

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Aerodynamic design optimization of wind turbine airfoils under aleatory and epistemic uncertainty

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