Technical Report for Wind Turbine Project
Budget: $10 – $30 USD
Suggested steps when conducting the project:
1) Estimate the generator mass and dimensions (consider a typical offshore configuration off an industry design based on your literature survey);
2) Determine the mechanical load on the top of the tower due to the effect of wind on the blades and to the generator weight; No Computer Fluid Dynamic calculations are required for this step, instead use primitive shapes to determine the time dependent effects of wind and gravity.
3) Select the tower geometry (e.g. constant of variable cross-section) and material (e.g. concrete or metal alloy, or composite, or combination of different materials);
4) Determine the displacement boundary conditions at the connection of the tower with the foundation. These time dependent boundary conditions have to be estimated by assuming a foundation system of primitive shape.
5) Justify the element choice when building the tower model.
Remark: make the assumptions that you believe are necessary to solve the problem.
More instructions
Report
prepare a technical report that should contain at least the following rubrics:
2) Title Page
3) Summary
• problem statement;
• how the problem was addressed/solved;
• key findings;
major challenges/outstanding issues;
• what future work could be;
4) Introduction
• background;
problem description;
• project plan;
• goals;
(5) Methods (you need to explain how the analysis was conducted and provide justification for the assumptions and parameters used in the analysis) - Description of major assumptions and simplifications;
• description of systematic testing and/or verification and/or validation;
• type of the analysis to be used (static/dynamic; linear/non-linear)
• description/specification/justification of boundary conditions and loading used;
• description of constitutive model and its parameters with justification;
• description of element type used and justification;
• mesh and its generation (element quality, solution convergence)
• description of parameters used in the solution procedure with justification;
6) Results and discussions (must included evidence of systematic testing and/or verification and/or validation);
• accuracy, convergence and stability of the results/solution
• limitations of the analysis
• possible improvements;
future work.
8) Conclusions
1) Estimate the generator mass and dimensions (consider a typical offshore configuration off an industry design based on your literature survey);
2) Determine the mechanical load on the top of the tower due to the effect of wind on the blades and to the generator weight; No Computer Fluid Dynamic calculations are required for this step, instead use primitive shapes to determine the time dependent effects of wind and gravity.
3) Select the tower geometry (e.g. constant of variable cross-section) and material (e.g. concrete or metal alloy, or composite, or combination of different materials);
4) Determine the displacement boundary conditions at the connection of the tower with the foundation. These time dependent boundary conditions have to be estimated by assuming a foundation system of primitive shape.
5) Justify the element choice when building the tower model.
Remark: make the assumptions that you believe are necessary to solve the problem.
More instructions
Report
prepare a technical report that should contain at least the following rubrics:
2) Title Page
3) Summary
• problem statement;
• how the problem was addressed/solved;
• key findings;
major challenges/outstanding issues;
• what future work could be;
4) Introduction
• background;
problem description;
• project plan;
• goals;
(5) Methods (you need to explain how the analysis was conducted and provide justification for the assumptions and parameters used in the analysis) - Description of major assumptions and simplifications;
• description of systematic testing and/or verification and/or validation;
• type of the analysis to be used (static/dynamic; linear/non-linear)
• description/specification/justification of boundary conditions and loading used;
• description of constitutive model and its parameters with justification;
• description of element type used and justification;
• mesh and its generation (element quality, solution convergence)
• description of parameters used in the solution procedure with justification;
6) Results and discussions (must included evidence of systematic testing and/or verification and/or validation);
• accuracy, convergence and stability of the results/solution
• limitations of the analysis
• possible improvements;
future work.
8) Conclusions