APPWRAP Project
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Innovations in leading edge protective wraps or protective coatings are currently being developed to counter the effects of leading edge erosion and damage on wind turbine blades. Concurrently, the design and development of vortex generators (VGs) is taking place to counter aerodynamic stall and enhance the aerodynamic performance of wind turbine blades. This project aims at research and analysis for the refinement of the design and development of an innovative solution, namely “fit for purpose sleeve”, which can couple the leading edge protection with the vortex generators (VGs) and analyze the performance of these VGs with a CFD method developed within this project. One of the main tasks of this project is to first complete the development of a pressurebased incompressible Naviery;Stokes method and implement it in the open source CFD suite SU2, for wind energy applications and then apply it for the above mentioned VG design and finally analyze the effect on the performance on a blade. As the first main deliverable the development of the CFD method is completed and the method together with verification and validation is published on various platforms including the AIAA SciTech 2020 Conference.
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TNO Identifier
877525
Publisher
TNO
Collation
66 p.
Place of publication
Petten