Optimal Design and Analysis of Wind Turbine Blade and Hub Coupled System
| Author(s) | : | S. Rafiuddin, R. Vishnu Vardhan Reddy |
| Institution | : | Department of Mechanical Engineering, JNTUACEP |
| Published In | : | Vol. 4, Issue 9 — September 2017 |
| Page No. | : | 638-646 |
| Domain | : | Engineering |
| Type | : | Research Paper |
| ISSN (Online) | : | 2348-4470 |
| ISSN (Print) | : | 2348-6406 |
Wind turbines are one of the renewable energy resources. Wind turbines will be best solution to decrease thepollution produced byfossil fuel operated power generators. In this paper typical 1.7MW wind turbine is designed andperformance analysis is carried out on the same. The aerodynamic contour design is one of the important thing to benoticed in wind turbine blade. So for the horizontal axis wind turbine blade the program for optimization design of theblades aerodynamic contour has been solved using MATLAB tool based on design process of Wilson method. Accordingto the space coordinate transformation theory, the space coordinates of the blade elements have been calculated. Fromthe coordinates generated wind turbine blade is modelled in CATIA. Then hub is also designed in CATIA. The first 6order inherent frequencies and vibration modes of Blade and Hub are solved in ANSYS to verify the design. Modalanalysis is selected in ANSYS to solve the inherent frequencies and vibration modes in ANSYS.
S. Rafiuddin, R. Vishnu Vardhan Reddy, “Optimal Design and Analysis of Wind Turbine Blade and Hub Coupled System”, International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research Development (IJAERD), Vol. 4, Issue 9, pp. 638-646, September 2017.
