LAPSE:2019.0179
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LAPSE:2019.0179
Influence of Icing on the Modal Behavior of Wind Turbine Blades
Sudhakar Gantasala, Jean-Claude Luneno, Jan-Olov Aidanpää
January 31, 2019
Wind turbines installed in cold climate sites accumulate ice on their structures. Icing of the rotor blades reduces turbine power output and increases loads, vibrations, noise, and safety risks due to the potential ice throw. Ice accumulation increases the mass distribution of the blade, while changes in the aerofoil shapes affect its aerodynamic behavior. Thus, the structural and aerodynamic changes due to icing affect the modal behavior of wind turbine blades. In this study, aeroelastic equations of the wind turbine blade vibrations are derived to analyze modal behavior of the Tjaereborg 2 MW wind turbine blade with ice. Structural vibrations of the blade are coupled with a Beddoes-Leishman unsteady attached flow aerodynamics model and the resulting aeroelastic equations are analyzed using the finite element method (FEM). A linearly increasing ice mass distribution is considered from the blade root to half-length and thereafter constant ice mass distribution to the blade tip, as defined by Germanischer Lloyd (GL) for the certification of wind turbines. Both structural and aerodynamic properties of the iced blades are evaluated and used to determine their influence on aeroelastic natural frequencies and damping factors. Blade natural frequencies reduce with ice mass and the amount of reduction in frequencies depends on how the ice mass is distributed along the blade length; but the reduction in damping factors depends on the ice shape. The variations in the natural frequencies of the iced blades with wind velocities are negligible; however, the damping factors change with wind velocity and become negative at some wind velocities. This study shows that the aerodynamic changes in the iced blade can cause violent vibrations within the operating wind velocity range of this turbine.
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damping, icing, natural frequency, wind turbine blade
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Gantasala S, Luneno JC, Aidanpää JO. Influence of Icing on the Modal Behavior of Wind Turbine Blades. (2019). LAPSE:2019.0179
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Gantasala S: Department of Engineering Sciences and Mathematics, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå 97187, Sweden [ORCID]
Luneno JC: Department of Engineering Sciences and Mathematics, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå 97187, Sweden
Aidanpää JO: Department of Engineering Sciences and Mathematics, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå 97187, Sweden
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Energies
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9
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11
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E862
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2016
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2016-10-26
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1996-1073
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