Short Course on Aerodynamic Blade Design

Steady-State Aerodynamics Codes for HAWTs:
Their Use in Blade Design and Related Issues

With An Emphasis on PROPID


Michael S. Selig, James L. Tangler, and Philippe Giguère


Monday August 2, 1999

8:30 am to noon (before the NREL Subcontractor Review Meeting)

National Wind Technology Center


Advanced Registration Required


--NEW-- List of Participants and Afternoon Working Session with PROPID --NEW--



Last update 7/21/99

Overview

The main objective for this short course on aerodynamic blade design is to "learn by doing." Accordingly, the focus will be on systematically using the computer program PROPID in a tradeoff study leading to a final blade geometry. Several blade design examples will be used to achieve this goal.

Background information on blade design methods, tradeoffs, and issues will be covered. Following the working session with PROPID, a few topics regarding airfoil data will be discussed to highlight its impact on the blade design process. Finally, different approaches to blade geometry optimization will be discussed, and an overview of the companion code PROPGA will be given.

At the end of this short course, participants will be given the latest version of PROPID and should have a working knowledge of these topics:

A more detailed course outline follows.


Course Outline

Part I: Blade Design Methods and Issues Part II: PROPID Part III: Airfoil Data Part IV: Blade Geometry Optimization Part V: Summary

Afternoon Working Session with PROPID

To provide additional PROPID support, there will be another working session from 1-4 pm on August 2. During this session, Philippe Giguère will help participants work on blade design cases of particular interest to them. Also, design cases will be suggested to those who do not have a particular blade design problem at hand, but would like additional practice with PROPID. The support will focus on generating the PROPID input file(s) and running the code. Help in generating the airfoil data file(s) will also be provided.

We recognized that some of the participants have already made travel plans that might not allow them to attend the afternoon session, and we apologize for the late notice. To ensure that all participants have a chance to receive some help on blade design problems of their own interest, technical support will be provided by Philippe Giguère (giguere@uiuc.edu) until the end of August. More information on this technical support will be provided at the end of the course.


Instructors


Registration

Registration is Free with a limit on enrollment. A maximum of 10 computers will be available with preferably one person per computer. If needed, computers will be shared by two people. The participants are encouraged to bring their own laptop computer (with Windows 95, 98 or NT), and those people will not count towards the maximum enrollment.

A list of the people that have registered for the course is available here. If you have registered for the course and that your name does not appear in the list, please contact Philippe Giguère at giguere@uiuc.edu or (303) 384-7095.

The extended registration deadline was July 21. Late registration might be possible, especially for participants that will be bringing their own laptop computer. Contact Philippe Giguère at giguere@uiuc.edu or (303) 384-7095 to inquire about the possibility for late registration. If late registration is possible, please fax the registration form to Philippe Giguère at (303) 384-6901


Contact

Any questions? Call or email Philippe Giguère at:


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