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Sandia 2014 Wind Turbine Blade Workshop- Van Dam
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Surface Erosion andRoughness Effects onAirfoil and WindTurbine Performance
C.P. (Case) van Dam
Department of Mechanical &Aerospace EngineeringUniversity of California, Davis
2014 Wind Turbine Blade WorkshopAlbuquerque, NM27 August 2014
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Contributors
• Sandia National Laboratories– David Maniaci– Mark Rumsey– Matt Barone
• Texas A&M– Ed White– Robert Ehrmann– Ben Wilcox
• UC Davis– Chris Langel– Ray Chow– Owen Hurley
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Outline
• Background• Project outline
– Field Measurements– Wind tunnel testing– Computational modeling
• Model validation• Airfoil results• Turbine performance
effects– NREL 5-MW rotor
• Conclusions & Next stepsSource: Mayda
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Windplant Loss CategoriesWalls & Kline (2012)
• Power losses can be as much as 20-30% instate of the art windplants:– Wake losses– Turbine availability– Balance of Plant (BOP) availability– Electrical– Environmental– Turbine performance– Curtailment
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Windplant Loss CategoriesWalls & Kline (2012)
• Power losses can be as much as 20-30% instate of the art windplants:– Wake losses– Turbine availability– Balance of Plant (BOP) availability– Electrical– Environmental– Turbine performance– Curtailment
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Environmental - Turbine PerformanceLosses
• These losses typically range from 1% to 10%• Impact on rotor aerodynamics:
– Icing• Glaze• Hoar
– Blade soiling– Blade erosion– Drop in air density (high temperature)– Turbulence, shear, etc.
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Blade Contamination and ErosionExamples
Spruce (2006) Kanaby (2007)
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Background - I
• Early stall controlled, constant speed windturbines were severely affected by bladesurface contamination and erosion. Largeperformance losses resulted (40% in peakpower, ≥ 20% in energy capture).
• Development and introduction of bladesection shapes that were less roughnesssensitive mitigated this issue.
• Issue was focus of Wind Energy ConversionSystem Blade-Surface Roughness Workshopat NREL on April 20-21,1993.
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Blade ContaminationMoroz & Eggleston (1993)
• Surface soiling induced lossin power for fixed pitch, stallcontrolled rotors was bigproblem
• Surface contaminationcaused by insectcontamination, dust, erosionof gel coat
• Surface roughness causesreduced sectional lift curveslope and maximum liftcoefficient, and increasedsectional drag
• Effect greater for stallcontrolled rotors than pitchcontrolled rotors
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Blade ContaminationTangler (1993)
• Surface contaminationinduced loss in power wasproblem for stall controlledrotors
• Aerostar blade uses NACA4415-4424 airfoils
• NREL blade uses S805A,806A, 807 airfoils
• NREL airfoils designed tohave less (maximum) liftsensitivity to surfaceroughness
• Tests show reduced loss inturbine power due tosurface roughness forNREL blade
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Background - II
• Effect of (small) roughness:– It may cause premature transition from laminar to turbulent
boundary layer state– It may cause boundary layer separation– It may cause flow unsteadiness– It removes energy from flow (increased skin friction)– Effect depends on:
• Roughness height• Roughness chordwise location• Roughness density• Pressure gradient• Unit Reynolds number• Mach number
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Background - III• Variable speed, variable pitch turbines started to supersede the
constant speed, fixed pitch turbines and this significantlymitigated the problem.
• However, a resurgence of the surface roughness problem hasoccurred:– More awareness as a result of improved windplant performance
analysis methods– Higher maximum thickness-to-chord ratio (t/c) blade sections– Higher lift-to-drag ratio (L/D) blade sections– Higher Reynolds numbers
• Combination of high density altitude and blade surfaceroughness can be especially troublesome.
• Because of size of turbines, blade washing is often costprohibitive.
• Detailed knowledge of loss mechanisms is still missing.• Computational tools to analyze roughness sensitivity of airfoils
are missing.
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Surface Roughness and ErosionProject
• Effects of Surface Contamination and Erosion onWind Turbine Performance
• Project started in April 2012• Team:
– Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque– Texas A&M University– University of California, Davis
• Tasks:– Field measurements of surface roughness and erosion– Wind tunnel testing of effect of surface roughness and
erosion on airfoil performance– Development of computational roughness model to account
for effect on aerodynamic performance of airfoils, blades,rotors
– Correlate wind tunnel and CFD results
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Wind Tunnel
• Oran W. Nicks Low Speed WindTunnel at Texas A&M
• Closed return tunnel• Test section 7 ft × 10 ft• Maximum velocity of 90 m/s• Blockage of 4.8%• Turbulence intensity of 0.25%• Maximum Rec = 3.6 × 106 based
on loading at maximum liftconditions
• Maximum Rec = 5.0 × 106 to α =4°
Model installed in wind tunnel
freestream
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Configurations
• Model chord = 0.813 m• Airfoil NACA 633-418• Clean• Tripped• Forward Facing Steps
• Chipped paint 157µm• Straight step 157µm
• Distributed Roughness• 100µm: 3, 9, 15% coverage• 140µm: 3, 6, 9, 12, 15% cov.• 200µm: 3% cov.• Distributed and 2D roughness
Simulated insect roughness (140 µm, 3%coverage) on NACA 633-418.
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Distributed Roughness
Random insect distribution with 3% coverage. Random insect distribution with 15% coverage.
suction sidepressure side suction sidepressure side
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Drag Polar at Rec = 3.2 × 106
L/D=106CL,max=1.36
L/D=72CL,max=1.28
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Transition, α = 0°, Rec = 3.2 × 106
CP,min
XFOIL, N=5.5
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Eroded Leading Edge Model
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Computational Modeling - I• OVERFLOW-2
– Overset, multigrid, compressible Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes flowsolution method
– Semi-public domain– Method newly developed Roughness Model has been coded into
• Reynolds averaged Navier-Stokes Equations– Remove turbulent fluctuations from flow equations. All eddy scales are
ignored and mean flow can then be resolved with coarser computationalgrid.
• Turbulence Modeling– To properly account for turbulent fluctuations, there must be a way to
approximate the effect of the removed scales. In RANS methods, thesefluctuations are accounted for in the Reynolds stress terms
– Surface roughness has a prominent effect on this process• Transition Modeling
– Baseline turbulence models must either assume fully laminar or “fully”turbulent. Need additional correlation to automate switch between laminarand turbulent.
– Surface roughness has a prominent effect on this process
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Computational Modeling - II
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Computational Modeling - III• Existing transition model Langtry-Menter:
– Recently developed– Two variable model
• Local momentum thickness parameter, transition onset whenlocal momentum thickness ≥ critical momentum thickness
• Intermittency parameter governs growth turbulent kineticenergy from transition onset to fully turbulent
• Roughness model adds 3rd variable to Langtry-Menter transition model:– Roughness amplification parameter (Ar)
• Turbulence model modified to account for surfaceroughness effects– Currently based on Wilcox
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• There is a direct correlationbetween distribution of Ar andskin friction due to dependenceon wall shear stress (τw)
Flat plate flow, Re = 1.34 million, Ma = 0.30
Top: Distribution of Ar variable along flat plate
Bottom: Corresponding skin friction distribution
Ar Rough Wall Boundary
= f(k+ )
k+=
U!k
s
"
ks= Roughness Height
U!=
!w
#
Cf=
!w
12 #U2
Roughness Variable (Ar) Distribution
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Initial Validation Cases
• Flat plate with distributed sand-grainroughness of varying heights (Feindt, 1956)– Zero pressure gradient– Adverse pressure gradient
• NACA 0012 with leading edge roughness(Kerho & Bragg, 1997)
• Texas A&M tunnel, NACA 633-418– Clean– Distributed roughness
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Effect of Roughness Height onSkin Friction
Flat plate, zero-pressure gradient, Feindt (1956)
Rek=!U
kk
µ
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Comparison of Measured andPredicted Effect of Roughness on
TransitionFlat plate, zero-pressure gradient, Feindt (1956)
Rek=!U
kk
µ
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Comparison of Measured andPredicted Boundary Layer Profiles
NACA 0012, Re = 1.25 × 106, α = 0˚1/2 in. roughness strip applied at s = 4 mm (x/c = 0.0018 - 0.0191)
• Wind tunnel measurement from Kerho & Bragg (1997)
• Slight lag in boundary layer development at early stations
• Profiles match well at later stations
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Comparison of Measured andPredicted Boundary Layer States
NACA 0012, Re = 1.25 × 106, α = 0˚
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Comparison of Measured andPredicted Drag Polars
NACA 633-418, Clean surface, Re = 1.6 × 106, Texas A&M tunnel
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Comparison of Measured andPredicted Transition Location
NACA 633-418, k/c = 170 × 10-6 @ x/c = -0.12:0.04, Re = 1.6 × 106,Texas A&M tunnel
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Comparison of Measured andPredicted Transition Location
NACA 633-418, k/c = 170 × 10-6 @ x/c = -0.12:0.04, Re = 2.4 × 106,Texas A&M tunnel
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NREL 5-MW Rotor
• Geometry based on6MW DOWEC rotor– Conceptual off-shore
turbine design– ECN (Energy Research Centre
of the Netherlands)
• Rotor diametertruncated and hubdiameter reduced
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NREL 5-MW Rotor
• Rotor diameter =126 m• Specific power = 401 W/m2
• 12.1 RPM• 3 m hub diameter• 61.5 m blade length• 4.7 m max chord• 13.3° inboard twist• 3 m/s cut-in speed• 25 m/s cut-out• 12 m/s rated speed
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Performance Prediction UsingComputational Roughness Model
• Six different airfoil profiles
• Airfoils analyzed using OVERFLOW-2 in both“clean” and “rough” configuration
• Roughness applied from 5% chord on lower to5% chord on upper surface
• Height of roughness set at k/c = 240 × 10-6-6 ( k= 0.24 mm or 0.001 in. for a chord of 1 m)
• Corresponds to relatively heavy soiling
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Airfoil Performance withRoughness
• Midspan DU-91-W210 airfoil
Re = 7.24 × 106 , k/c = 240 × 10-6 roughness applied x/c = -0.05:0.05
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Effect of Blade Roughness on TurbinePower
WT-Perf, NREL 5-MW turbine, Roughness height k/c = 240 × 10-6
Percent power loss due todegradation
Gross power loss due todegradation
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Effect of Blade Roughness on TurbinePerformance
NREL 5 MW turbine, Roughness height k/c = 240 × 10-6
-2.520.4490.4598.5
-2.800.4090.4208.0
-3.080.3230.3347.0
-3.430.2780.2876.5
-3.820.2310.2416.0
-4.260.1860.1945.5
Change inAnnualEnergy
Capture (%)*
TurbineCapacity
Factor (rough)*
TurbineCapacity
Factor (clean)*
Mean windspeed at hubheight (m/s)
* = based on Raleigh distribution
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NACA 633-418 Performance atRec=3.2×106
Configuration dCL/dα L/Dmax CL,max Rek,crit
Clean 6.71/rad 106 1.36 -
100-03 -0.3% -18% -3.4% 316±12
100-09 -1.6% -24% -4.8% 271±13
100-15 -3.1% -32% -6.0% 254±13
140-03 -3.4% -35% -4.0% 240±19
140-03ext -2.8% -37% -5.6% 222±19
140-06 -3.7% -37% -5.6% 207±19
140-09 -3.6% -39% -7.4% 178±18
140-12 -3.6% -40% -7.8% 178±18
140-15 -3.7% -41% -8.7% 178±18
200-03
ELE
-2.7%
-7.3%
-35%
-52%
-0.6%
-16.9%
227±28
-
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NREL 5MW AEP Losses
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Conclusions• Comprehensive study on effect of blade surface
erosion and soiling on wind turbine performance isbeing conducted:– Field measurements of blade erosion– Wind tunnel testing (NACA 633-418)– Computational modeling of surface roughness
• Study is providing significant aerodynamic insight intosurface roughness effects
• Newly developed model allows for specifyingroughness and analyzing impact on airfoil/blade/rotorperformance
• Computational modeling and wind tunnel studies willbe published in two Sandia reports in fall 2014
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Next Steps• Near term:
– Implement improvements in computational roughnessmodel:
• Pressure gradient effect• Distributed roughness density effect
– Calibrate/validate computational roughness model againstTexas A&M wind tunnel results
• Longer term:– Evaluate (experimentally and computationally) roughness
sensitivity of higher t/c and higher L/D section shapes– 3D RANS modeling of roughness effect on rotor
performance– Implement boundary modifiers (VGs) in RANS and study
their effectiveness mitigating surface roughness effects– Develop lower-order tool to evaluate surface roughness
effects and optimize boundary layer modifiers (size, location)
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Acknowledgements• U.S. Department of Energy• Sandia National Laboratories• Warren and Leta Giedt Endowment• National Science Foundation GK-12 RESOURCE
program
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