Title: Modelling wind turbine mechanical power by friction effects

Authors: J. Villanueva, L. Alvarez-Icaza

Addresses: Instituto de Ingenieria, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 04510 Coyoacan DF, Mexico. ' Instituto de Ingenieria, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 04510 Coyoacan DF, Mexico

Abstract: The mechanical power of a wind turbine is modelled from a friction phenomenon perspective. Two models for the available power are proposed based on a relative speed between the wind speed and turbine blades. The main advantage of these new models is in the possibility of using real-time standard identification techniques for recovering their parameters value. Models are compared with a heuristic reference model showing good performance.

Keywords: wind turbines; power coefficient; mechanical power; relative speed; friction; modelling; wind energy; wind power; wind speed; turbine blades; real-time identification.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMIC.2009.024460

International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control, 2009 Vol.6 No.3, pp.205 - 212

Published online: 05 Apr 2009 *

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