Abstract
This paper presents findings from a verification and validation exercise on the latest version of the Department of Energy/National Renewable Energy Laboratory wind turbine aeroelastic engineering simulation tool FAST. Results from a set of 1141 FAST simulations were compared to those from the Siemens’ aeroelastic simulation tool BHawC, as well as experimental data from a heavily instrumented 2.3 megawatt Siemens wind turbine located at the National Wind Technology Center. The code validation was performed following the IEC-61400-13 standard, where a set of select quantities of interest from simulations at various wind speeds and atmospheric turbulence conditions were used for a three-way comparison between FAST, BHawC, and the measurements. Results highlight many improvements of the latest version of FAST over its previous versions. This paper also provides comments from the authors on the data quality, and avenues for potential future work using these results.
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