EVOLUTIONARY DESIGN OF WIND TURBINE BLADES

Authors

  • V. Diaz Casas
  • R. J. Duro
  • F. Lopez-Pena

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47839/ijc.4.3.362

Keywords:

Wind Turbines, Evolutionary Techniques, Automatic

Abstract

An automatic design environment is implemented for the aerodynamic design of wind turbine blades. This tool involves the integration of evolutionary techniques and a simple, fast, and robust aerodynamic simulator which was developed for the prediction of the performance of any turbine blade produced by the evolutionary process. The aerodynamic simulator is based on blade element theory in which a panel method is combined with an integral boundary layer code to calculate the blade airfoils’ characteristics. In order to reduce computations some simplifications have been applied and the results corrected by means of the application of neural network based approximations. Results of the simulations obtained using this technique, of the application of the automatic design procedure and of the operation of the wind turbines thus obtained are presented.

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Published

2014-08-01

How to Cite

Diaz Casas, V., Duro, R. J., & Lopez-Pena, F. (2014). EVOLUTIONARY DESIGN OF WIND TURBINE BLADES. International Journal of Computing, 4(3), 49-55. https://doi.org/10.47839/ijc.4.3.362

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2005, Volume 4, Issue 3

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