@article{bd67f87307aa4d46ba7b0e37dc9be47f,
title = "Field tests of a highly flexible downwind ultralight rotor to mimic a 13-MW turbine rotor",
abstract = "Offshore extreme-scale turbines of 20-25 MW in size may offer reduced energy costs. The technical barriers at these extreme scales include escalating blade masses with increased flexibility as well as high gravity loads and tower-strike issues. These barriers may be addressed with a load-aligning downwind turbine. To investigate this type of design, a field test campaign was conducted with an aeroelastically scaled rotor, termed the Segmented Ultralight Morphing Rotor Demonstrator (SUMR-D). The tests were conducted on the Controls Advanced Research Turbine at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. The paper gives an overviewof the experimental diagnostics, blade design, and results of the field campaign, as well as makes conclusions and recommendations regarding extreme-scale highly flexible downwind rotors.",
keywords = "downwind, extreme-scale, flexible, rotor",
author = "Eric Loth and Gavin Ananda and Mayank Chetan and Rick Damiani and \{Todd Griffith\}, D. and Kathryn Johnson and Sepideh Kianbakht and Meghan Kaminski and Lucy Pao and Mandar Phadnis and Chao Qin and Andy Scholbrock and Michael Selig and Juliet Simpson and Shulong Yao",
note = "This work was authored in part by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, operated by Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC, for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under Contract No. DE-AC36-08GO28308. Funding provided by U.S. Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Wind Energy Technologies Office. The views expressed in the article do not necessarily represent the views of the DOE or the U.S. Government. The U.S. Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the U.S. Government retains a nonexclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, worldwide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this work, or allow others to do so, for U.S. Government purposes. This work was supported and funded in part by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA-E), U.S. Department of Energy, under Award Number DE-AR0000667.; 2022 Science of Making Torque from Wind, TORQUE 2022 ; Conference date: 01-06-2022 Through 03-06-2022",
year = "2022",
month = jun,
day = "2",
doi = "10.1088/1742-6596/2265/3/032031",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "2265",
journal = "Journal of Physics: Conference Series",
issn = "1742-6588",
publisher = "IOP Publishing Ltd.",
number = "3",
}