Test-bed and Full-Scale Demonstration of Plasma Flow Control for Wind Turbines. Phase 1

Abstract

This project concerns the development of a plasma flow control system for wind turbines. This document describes the technical progress made towards this goal during the 12-month Phase I effort that began in February, 2012. The Phase I project had four distinct objectives: (1) preliminary design of a plasma flow control system with manual control for wind turbines, (2) design and construction of laboratory facilities to permit component test and evaluation, (3) development and validation of simulation tools, and (4) field demonstration of a prototype system. Significant progress was made towards each of these goals, culminating in the field demonstration of a manually-controlled plasma flow control system on a 20 kW test turbine.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 15, 2013
Accession Number
ADA586867

Entities

People

  • Benjamin Rosenthal
  • Christopher Szlatenyi
  • Neal E. Fine

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundary Layer
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Control Systems
  • Dielectrics
  • Energy Consumption
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Flow
  • Geometry
  • Hypervelocity Flow
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Materials Processing
  • Materials Science
  • Materials Testing
  • Measurement
  • Pulsed Power
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Wind Turbines

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Plasma Physics.
  • Software Engineering