Aeroelasticity of Offshore Wind Turbines
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.