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V.A.Riziotis and S.G.Voutsinas National Technical University of Athens School of Mechanical Engineering Fluids Section. E.S. Politis and P. K. Chaviaropoulos Centre for Renewable Energy Sources Wind Energy Section.
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V.A.Riziotis and S.G.Voutsinas National Technical University of Athens School of Mechanical Engineering Fluids Section E.S. Politis and P. K. Chaviaropoulos Centre for Renewable Energy Sources Wind Energy Section Investigation of the Stability Bounds of Wind Turbines in view of Passive Instability Suppression EWEC’06 Athens 27 February-2 March 2006
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2nd cyclic flap 1st cyclic lead-lag 1st flap
2nd cyclic flap 1st cyclic lead-lag 1st flap
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isolated blade analysis 1st lead-lag mode FOIL2W: 2D viscous-inviscid interaction model wind speed 12m/s
introduction of a soft connection of the nacelle with the tower kyaw = 5x105 Nm/rad
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2nd flap 1st lag 2nd flap 1st lag Reference regressive lead-lag mode shape soft yaw
Effect from the introduction of a soft yaw connection on the damping of the rotor lead-lag modes Application to an Active Stall wind turbine
Acknowledgements • European Commission & Greek Secretariat for Research and Technology for co-funding this work under contract NNK5-CT2002-00627 (STABCON project) • STABCON project partners for publishing of the paper