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Record Nr.

UNINA9910699645603321

Autore

Bir Gunjit S

Titolo

User's guide to MBC3 [[electronic resource] ] : multi-blade coordinate transformation code for 3-bladed wind turbines / / G.S. Bir

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Golden, CO : , : National Renewable Energy Laboratory, , [2010]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iv, 24 pages) : digital, PDF file

Collana

NREL/TP ; ; 500-44327

Soggetti

Wind turbines - Mathematical models

Wind power - Research

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed Sept. 27, 2010).

"September 2010."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (page 24).

Sommario/riassunto

The dynamics of wind turbine rotor blades are conventionally expressed in rotating frames attached to the individual blades. The tower-nacelle subsystem though, sees the combined effect of all rotor blades, not the individual blades. Also, the rotor responds as a whole to excitations such as aerodynamic gusts, control inputs, and tower-nacelle motion--all of which occur in a nonrotating frame. Multi-blade coordinate transformation (MBC) helps integrate the dynamics of individual blades and express them in a fixed (nonrotating) frame. MBC involves two steps: transforming the rotating degrees of freedom and transforming the equations of motion. Reference 1 details the MBC operation. This guide summarizes the MBC concept and underlying transformations. This guide also explains how to use MBC3, a MATLAB-based script we developed to perform multi-blade coordinate transformation of system matrices for three-bladed wind turbines.