Wind Turbine Aeroelasticity and Fatigue

Paper 1: H. Meng, F.S. Lien, G. Glinka, P. Geiger (2019), "Study on Fatigue Life of Bend-Twist Coupling Wind Turbine Blade Based on Anisotropic Beam Model and Stress-Based Fatigue Analysis Method", Composite Structures, Vol. 208, pp. 678-701.

Paper 2: H. Meng, F.S. Lien, E. Yee, J. Shen (2020), "Modelling of Anisotropic Beam for Rotational Composite Wind Turbine Blade by Using Finite-difference Time-domain (FDTD) Method", Renewable Energy, Vol. 162, pp. 2361-2379.

Elastic actuator line model

Elastic actuator line model
Elastic actuator line model

Tip displacements (3 Blades, 2 directions, TSR=12)

Tip displacements (3 Blades, 2 directions, TSR=12)

Root moments (3 Blades, 2 directions, TSR=12)

Root moments (3 Blades, 2 directions, TSR=12)

Case study of two staggered wind turbines

Case study of two staggered wind turbines

Case study of wind farm

Case study of wind farm

Anisotropic blade modelling and fatigue analysis

Anisotropic blade modelling and fatigue analysis

Stress and strain reconstruction

Stress and strain reconstruction

Fatigue analysis NREL 5MW wind turbine blade

Fatigue analysis NREL 5MW wind turbine blade