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Aerodynamic Effects of Gurney Flaps on the Rotor Blades of a Research Wind Turbine

Jörg Alber, Rodrigo Soto-Valle, Marinos Manolesos, Sirko Bartholomay, Christian Navid Nayeri, Marvin Schönlau, Christian Menzel, Christian Oliver Paschereit, Joachim Twele, Jens Fortmann

Wind Energy Science, Volume: 5, Issue: 4, Pages: 1645 - 1662

Swansea University Author: Marinos Manolesos

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DOI (Published version): 10.5194/wes-2020-40

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This paper investigates the aerodynamic impact of Gurney flaps on a research wind turbine of the Hermann-Föttinger Institute at the Technische Universität Berlin. The rotor radius is 1.5 meters and the blade configurations consist of the clean and the tripped baseline cases emulating the effects of...

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ISSN: 2366-7443 2366-7451
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title Aerodynamic Effects of Gurney Flaps on the Rotor Blades of a Research Wind Turbine
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Jens Fortmann
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description This paper investigates the aerodynamic impact of Gurney flaps on a research wind turbine of the Hermann-Föttinger Institute at the Technische Universität Berlin. The rotor radius is 1.5 meters and the blade configurations consist of the clean and the tripped baseline cases emulating the effects of forced leading edge transition. The wind tunnel experiments include three operation points based on tip speed ratios of 3.0, 4.3 and 5.6, reaching Reynold numbers of approximately 250,000. The measurements are taken by means of three different methods; Ultrasonic Anemometry in the wake, surface pressure taps in the mid-span blade region and strain gauges at the blade root. The retrofit application consists of two Gurney flap heights of 0.5 % and 1.0 % in relation to the chord length, which are implemented perpendicular to the pressure side at the trailing edge. As a result, the Gurney flap configurations evoke performance improvements in terms of the axial wake velocities, the angles-of-attack and the lift coefficients. The enhancement of the root bending moments imply an increase of both the rotor torque and the thrust. Furthermore, the aerodynamic impact appears to be more pronounced in the tripped case compared to the clean case. Gurney flaps are considered a worthwhile passive flow-control device in order to alleviate the adverse effects of early separation and leading edge erosion of horizontal axis wind turbines.
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