In this work, aimed at the development of an aeroacoustics-based wind turbine blade damage detection approach, the noise scattered from two airfoils with damage at the trailing edge or at the leading edge is investigated. Four trailing edge cracks (with width of 0.2, 0.5, 1.0 and 2.0 mm) and four leading edge erosion configurations (consisting of gouges and delamination) are investigated for a NACA 0018 and a DU96 W180 airfoil. Experiments are carried out under clean and turbulent inflow conditions. Acoustic measurements are performed in an anechoic wind tunnel with a microphone array. The trailing edge crack causes a tonal peak at trailingedge-thickness-based Strouhal number approximately equal to ~ 0.1 h St under clean and low turbulence intensity inflow conditions (e.g. ~4% in this study). For a higher turbulence intensity (e.g., ~7%), the tonal peaks are not detectable. For the leading edge erosion case, under clean inflow conditions and minor damage levels, the amplitudes of the harmonics in the trailing edge noise spectra increase compared with the baseline. For moderate damage levels, the harmonics on the suction side shift to higher frequencies with lower amplitudes. For the highest damage levels, only broadband characteristics are present, where low-frequency contributions increase and high-frequency contributions decrease as the damage level increases. When introducing turbulent inflow, the leading edge impingement noise level decreases at medium-high frequency (above 1000 Hz) with increasing levels of erosion.

An aeroacoustics-based approach for wind turbine blade damage detection / Zhang, Y.; Avallone, F.; Watson, S.. - In: JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONFERENCE SERIES. - ISSN 1742-6588. - 2265:(2022), p. 022088. (Intervento presentato al convegno The Science of Making Torque from Wind (TORQUE 2022)) [10.1088/1742-6596/2265/2/022088].

An aeroacoustics-based approach for wind turbine blade damage detection

Avallone F.;
2022

Abstract

In this work, aimed at the development of an aeroacoustics-based wind turbine blade damage detection approach, the noise scattered from two airfoils with damage at the trailing edge or at the leading edge is investigated. Four trailing edge cracks (with width of 0.2, 0.5, 1.0 and 2.0 mm) and four leading edge erosion configurations (consisting of gouges and delamination) are investigated for a NACA 0018 and a DU96 W180 airfoil. Experiments are carried out under clean and turbulent inflow conditions. Acoustic measurements are performed in an anechoic wind tunnel with a microphone array. The trailing edge crack causes a tonal peak at trailingedge-thickness-based Strouhal number approximately equal to ~ 0.1 h St under clean and low turbulence intensity inflow conditions (e.g. ~4% in this study). For a higher turbulence intensity (e.g., ~7%), the tonal peaks are not detectable. For the leading edge erosion case, under clean inflow conditions and minor damage levels, the amplitudes of the harmonics in the trailing edge noise spectra increase compared with the baseline. For moderate damage levels, the harmonics on the suction side shift to higher frequencies with lower amplitudes. For the highest damage levels, only broadband characteristics are present, where low-frequency contributions increase and high-frequency contributions decrease as the damage level increases. When introducing turbulent inflow, the leading edge impingement noise level decreases at medium-high frequency (above 1000 Hz) with increasing levels of erosion.
File in questo prodotto:
File Dimensione Formato  
Zhang_2022_J._Phys.__Conf._Ser._2265_022088.pdf

accesso aperto

Tipologia: 2a Post-print versione editoriale / Version of Record
Licenza: Creative commons
Dimensione 1.93 MB
Formato Adobe PDF
1.93 MB Adobe PDF Visualizza/Apri
Pubblicazioni consigliate

I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.

Utilizza questo identificativo per citare o creare un link a questo documento: https://hdl.handle.net/11583/2976885