Aeroacoustic Simulations of a Wind Turbine: Validation with Field Tests, Including Trailing-Edge Serrations

Conference paper (2024)

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A. Pinto Ribeiro Dassault Systèmes
W.C.P. van der Velden None Dassault Systèmes
D. Casalino Dassault Systèmes
Guannan Wang None LM Wind Power
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2024

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English

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Abstract

Numerical simulations of a wind turbine blade with and without trailing-edge serrations are validated with full-scale field test of a 130 m diameter onshore wind turbine. Simulations focus on trailing-edge noise and are conducted on extruded airfoil sections of the blade using the lattice-Boltzmann method and very large eddy simulations, which are then propagated to the far-field using the Ffowcs Williams-Hawkings approach, simulating the rotation of the sections and the noise of the entire rotor. Far-field noise spectra at two mean wind speeds are used for validation, with the sound power level of the simulations being within 2.5 dB of field test and the total noise reductions attributed to the serrations being captured within 0.6 dB.