The adoption of blunt trailing edge airfoils for the inner regions of large wind turbine blades has been proposed. Blunt trailing edge airfoils would not only provide increased structural volume, but have also been found to improve the lift characteristics of airfoils and therefore allow for section shapes with a greater maximum thickness. Limited experimental data makes it difficult for wind turbine designers to consider and conduct tradeoff studies using these section shapes. This lack of experimental data precipitated the present analysis of blunt trailing edge airfoils using computational fluid dynamics. Several computational techniques are applied including a viscous/inviscid interaction method and several Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes methods.
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ASME 2003 Wind Energy Symposium
January 6–9, 2003
Reno, Nevada, USA
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1-56347-594-4
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Analysis of Blunt Trailing Edge Airfoils
K. J. Standish,
K. J. Standish
University of California at Davis, Davis, CA
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C. P. van Dam
C. P. van Dam
University of California at Davis, Davis, CA
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K. J. Standish
University of California at Davis, Davis, CA
C. P. van Dam
University of California at Davis, Davis, CA
Paper No:
WIND2003-353, pp. 32-42; 11 pages
Published Online:
February 4, 2009
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Standish, KJ, & van Dam, CP. "Analysis of Blunt Trailing Edge Airfoils." Proceedings of the ASME 2003 Wind Energy Symposium. ASME 2003 Wind Energy Symposium. Reno, Nevada, USA. January 6–9, 2003. pp. 32-42. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/WIND2003-353
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