Aerodynamic Optimization Design and Calculation of a 2MW Horizontal Axial Wind Turbine Rotor Based on Blade Theory and Particle Swarm Optimization

Author

Yang, Congxin ; Lv, Xiaojing ; Tong, Gang ; Song, Xiancheng

Author_Institution

Sch. of Energy & Power Eng., Lanzhou Univ. of Technol., Lanzhou, China

fYear

2011

fDate

25-28 March 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The aerodynamic optimization design and calculation of a 2MW horizontal axial wind turbine (HAWT) rotor are carried out based on particle swarm optimization (PSO) and the HAWT blade theory, which adopts wind velocity correction produced by the complicated wake vortexes and alterable circulation along the wind rotor blade axis, and combines the aerodynamic features of a horizontal axial wind turbine to evaluate its aerodynamic performance. A computational optimization design example indicates that the optimization design method, put forward in the paper, has good feasibility and reliability in aerodynamic optimization design and computation of a HAWT rotor.

Keywords

aerodynamics; blades; particle swarm optimisation; reliability; rotors; vortices; wakes; wind turbines; HAWT blade theory; HAWT rotor; PSO; aerodynamic optimization design; horizontal axial wind turbine rotor; particle swarm optimization; power 2 MW; reliability; wake vortexes; wind velocity correction; Aerodynamics; Blades; Optimization; Particle swarm optimization; Rotors; Wind speed; Wind turbines;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power and Energy Engineering Conference (APPEEC), 2011 Asia-Pacific

Conference_Location

Wuhan

ISSN

2157-4839

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6253-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APPEEC.2011.5748648

Filename

5748648