A validation and code-to-code verification of FAST for a megawatt-scale wind turbine with aeroelastically tailored blades

This paper presents validation and code-to-code verification of the latest version of the U.S. Department of Energy, National Renewable Energy Laboratory wind turbine aeroelastic engineering simulation tool, FAST v8. A set of 1141 test cases, for which experimental data from a Siemens 2.3 MW mac...

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Main Authors: S. Guntur, J. Jonkman, R. Sievers, M. A. Sprague, S. Schreck, Q. Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2017-08-01
Series:Wind Energy Science
Online Access:https://www.wind-energ-sci.net/2/443/2017/wes-2-443-2017.pdf