Abstract

Traditionally, stability assessment of wind turbines has been performed by eigenanalysis of the azimuthally-averaged linearized system after applying the Multi-Blade Coordinate (MBC) transformation. However, due to internal or external anisotropy, the MBC transform does not produce an exact Linear Time-Invariant (LTI) system, and a Floquet analysis is required to capture the influence of all periodic terms, leading to a more accurate stability analysis. In this paper exponential integration methods that use system linearizations at different blade azimuth positions are used to integrate the perturbed system state and compute the Floquet monodromy matrix. The proposed procedure is assessed for a simple 6 DOF wind turbine model and a more complex aeroelastic model of a 5MW onshore wind turbine. The defined along-the-path or moving-point exponential integrator is found to be the suitable in order to perform a Floquet stability analysis even using a coarse linearization grid.

Details

Title
Along-the-path exponential integration for Floquet stability analysis of wind turbines
Author
Ros, J 1 ; Olcoz, A 2 ; Plaza, A 2 

 Institute of Smart Cities (ISC), Public University of Navarre (UPNA), Campus of Arrosadia , 31006 Pamplona , Spain; Engineering Department, Public University of Navarre (UPNA), Campus of Arrosadia , 31006 Pamplona , Spain 
 Engineering Department, Public University of Navarre (UPNA), Campus of Arrosadia , 31006 Pamplona , Spain 
First page
032026
Publication year
2022
Publication date
May 2022
Publisher
IOP Publishing
ISSN
17426588
e-ISSN
17426596
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2672756950
Copyright
Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.