REVIEW ARTICLE
Design of Wind Turbine Blade with Thick Airfoils and Flatback and its Aerodynamic Characteristic
Lijun Xu*, 1, Lei Xu1, Lei Zhang2, Ke Yang2
1 Department of Electric and Information Engineering, Xinjiang Institute of Engineering, Urmqi, 830091, China
2 Department of Electric and Information Engineering, Xinjiang Institute of Engineering, Urmqi, 830091, China
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2015Volume: 9
First Page: 910
Last Page: 915
Publisher Id: TOMEJ-9-910
DOI: 10.2174/1874155X01509010910
Article History:
Received Date: 17/02/2014Revision Received Date: 21/03/2015
Acceptance Date: 09/06/2015
Electronic publication date: 7/10/2015
Collection year: 2015
© 2015 Xu et al
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open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode). This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
large-scaled blade has posed many problems related to design and production. After introducing the features of blade with thick airfoils and flatback, based on relevant parameters of Huaren 100 kW wind turbine, the paper designed blade with thick airfoils and flatback, introduced blade parameter design, and analyzed the aerodynamic performance of blades using GH bladed software, obtaining the relationship between power output of wind turbine with blade tip speed ratio Cp. Furthermore, it analyzed the aerodynamic performance of original design blades, modified blades and Huaren 100 kW blades, and assessed the aerodynamic performance of modified blade.
Keywords: Aerodynamic performance , parameter design, thick airfoils and flatback, wind turbine blade.
