LMS Virtual.Lab Aerodyn Wind Loads to be Presented at EWEC 2009

By DE Editors

LMS will be participating in EWEC 2009, a European wind energy event. At EWEC 2009, which attracts renewable energy experts from around the world, LMS will present several of its dedicated wind energy solutions for wind turbine manufacturers, including the new LMS Virtual.Lab Motion Aerodyn Wind Loads feature found in its latest release, LMS Virtual.Lab Rev 8B. 

Wind turbine developers face some very particular challenges like aero-elastic wind load modeling, automating numerous and varying load runs, and comprehensive pre- and post-processing. To solve this previously,  users had to rely on specialized third-party software outside the LMS Virtual.Lab environment and the related time-consuming data translations and importation. Now, a new feature in LMS Virtual.Lab Rev 8B, users will be able to reliably predict transient dynamic loads and use them as input for subsequent fatigue-life and radiated noise emission calculations from within the LMS Virtual.Lab environment.

LMS Virtual.Lab Motion can be used to create the blade and its structural flexibility and the wind behavioral traits, incorporating the modeling of any other critical elements in appropriate detail, such as gearboxes, bearings, and controls. The wind loads themselves are computed using the Aerodyn subroutine for LMS Virtual.Lab Motion. Numerous pre-processing options are available to help create correctly formatted wind input data,  including wind behavior traits ranging from turbulent to constant, as well as IEC wind standards to validate the wind turbine design. Based on this wind information, and the blade orientation and speed during each time step, the LMS Virtual.Lab Aerodyn subroutine takes over, calculating the apparent wind speed on the blades and the subsequent wind load for each blade section, which enables accurate dynamic simulation studies in LMS Virtual.Lab Motion.

LMS International will be present at the European Wind Energy Conference and Exhibition (EWEC) in Marseille, France from March 16 to March 19, 2009 and will exhibit at booth #1736 in Hall One. 

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Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.