AE/ME 8XXX Wind Engineering (3-0-3)
Instructor: Lakshmi N. Sankar
lsankar@ae.gatech.edu
Course
Objectives: This introductory course will allow students to learn about wind
energy and its potential, modeling and design horizontal axis wind turbines,
and analysis of the economic benefits of wind turbine systems.
Grade
is based on three term mini projects, one final project report, and an oral
presentation.
- Overview of Wind Engineering
(6 hours) Lecture Modules: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
- Benefits of wind
energy
- Assessment of Wind
Resources
- Assessment of means of
energy production, consumption, and cost
- Green credit
- Wind turbine
terminology and definitions
- Actuator disk model of
horizontal axis wind turbines (3 hours) Lecture
Module 2
- Review of airfoil
aerodynamics (9 hours) Lecture Modules: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5
- Lift, drag, and
pitching moment
- Panel method for
airfoil analysis
- Modeling laminar and
turbulent boundary layers, and transition
- Airfoil design for
wind energy applications
- Blade element theory (9
hours) Lecture Modules 4.1 and
4.2
- Inflow models based
on combined blade element theory
- Incorporation of
swirl losses in inflow
- Root and tip loses,
and stall delay models
- Wind turbine modeling
tools WT_PERF, Yaw_Dyn and PropID
- Horizontal axis wind turbine
design using blade element theory (6 hours) Lecture
Modules 5.1
and 5.2
·
Conversion of mechanical energy into electricity
(3 hours)
·
Basic AC Power Generators
·
Hybrid Power Systems
·
Hybrid System Modeling and Simulation
Homer
- Economic analysis of wind
turbine systems (3 hours) Lecture Modules 6.1 and
6.2
- Impact of wind turbines on
the environment (3 hours) Lecture Modules 7.1, 7.2 , 7.3
- Presentations by students (3
hours)