Aerodynamic damping and bend–twist coupling significantly affect the dynamic response of wind turbines. In this paper, unsteady aerodynamics, aerodynamic damping, and bend–twist coupling (twist-towards-feather) are combined to establish a smart rotor model with trailing edge flaps (TEFs) based on a National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) 5 MW reference horizontal-axis wind turbine. The overall idea is to quantitatively evaluate the influence of aerodynamic damping and bend–twist coupling on the smart rotor and to present the control effect of the TEFs under normal wind turbine operating conditions. An aerodynamic model considering the dynamic stall and aerodynamic damping as well as a structural bend–twist coupling model with the influence of gravity and centrifugal force are incorporated into the coupling analysis. The model verification shows that the present model is relatively stable under highly unsteady wind conditions. Then, a robust adaptive tracking (RAT) controller is designed to suppress fluctuations in both the flapwise tip deflection and output power. The simulations show an average reduction of up to 63.86% in the flapwise tip deflection power spectral density (PSD) of blade 1 at the 1P frequency, with an average reduction in the standard deviation of the output power of up to 34.33%.
Issue Section:
Research Papers
Keywords:
horizontal-axis wind turbine,
smart rotor,
aerodynamic damping,
bend–twist coupling,
robust adaptive tracking control,
multiple objectives
Topics:
Blades,
Damping,
Deflection,
Rotors,
Stress,
Wind,
Wind turbines,
Simulation,
Control equipment,
Fluctuations (Physics)
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