Measuring and Modeling Wind Turbine Dynamics
January 1, 2012Los Alamos National Laboratory Engineering, 2011-12
Liaison(s): Curtt Ammerman
Advisor(s): Ziyad Durón ’81
Students(s): Evann Gonzales (TL-S), Joseph Min (TL-F), Richard Coronado, Andrew Jennings, Kyle Carbo (F), Kevin Leyden (S)
This Harvey Mudd College (HMC) Clinic Project is designed to directly support the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Intelligent Wind Turbine Program, an engineering research effort focused on improving wind turbine reliability. The HMC team was tasked with obtaining operational dynamic data from a Whisper 500 residential-class wind turbine and using this information to develop and validate a multibody dynamics model.