Aeroelasticity of Offshore Wind Turbines
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University of Oldenburg
Institute of Physics - ForWind
Prof. Dr. Kerstin Avila
Küpkersweg 70
D-26129 Oldenburg
Tel: +49 (0)441 / 798-5070
Email: kerstin.avila@uni-oldenburg.de
Aeroelasticity of Offshore Wind Turbines
Aeroelasticity of Offshore Wind Turbines
The rotor blades of offshore turbines become consistently longer, slimmer and more flexible. Combined with the large-scale laminar-turbulent inflow conditions the structure oscillations of the blades could become critical. Higher maintenance, an increased wear or even damages can arise, when resonances become amplified. Nonlinear resonances as a consequence of fluid-structure interactions are challenging to model and simulate. We therefore plan the development of laboratory turbines with rotor blades mimicking the dominating oscillations.