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2016
Conference Paper
Titel
Towards the optimization of wind turbine rotor blades by means of computational fluid dynamics and the adjoint approach
Abstract
Optimization of the aeroelastic performance of wind turbines has a positive effect on the cost-effectiveness of wind energy. Hence, the development and implementation of reliable optimization methods to be used in the de- sign process is currently an important field of research. In this work a tool using the adjoint approach and stationary computational fluid dynamics is developed and tested. Applications to automatically process a rotor blade are implemented, such as an automatized pre-processing tool for the later projection of gradients and mesh movement. The applications are tested with 2D and 3D test cases. A preliminary aerodynamic optimization of a rotating blade was conducted.
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