What do Shark Fins, Winglets and Turbulators Have in Common?
Ambitions and developments in offshore wind energy have forced us to re-evaluate our approach and methods in wind turbine blade design once more. With the ultimate goal of reducing the levelised cost of energy (LCoE) through optimised tip design, the InnoTip research project ran as a collaboration between LM Wind Power’s aerodynamics team and ECN. During this project three new tip designs were delivered and two were tested by extending the blades on ECN’s 2.5MW test turbines with a temporary add-on tip extension – a unique process.
By Ozlem Ceyhan Yilmaz, ECN, The Netherlands and Jordy van Kalken, LM Wind Power, Denmark
