For aerodynamic simulations initially, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methods were developed.  

With simulation tools reaching higher levels of sophistication, the structural behavior of wind turbines could be simulated using modern multibody simulation (MBS) codes like Simpack. Thus, the next logical step was to link both developments for a more detailed analysis of the structural dynamics of a wind turbine and its components. The resulting approach, coupling fluid-structure computations based on computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and multibody simulation (MBS), is presented in this article.

Find out more and read the Simpack News article ‘Fluid-Structure Coupling for Wind Turbine Rotors’ by Felix Scheerer, Stefan Hauptmann, and Swen Streiner, SWE, University of Stuttgart.

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