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General responses of coupled blade-hub equations of a horizontal axis wind turbine (HAWT) are studied. HAWT blades have parametric stiffness terms due to gravity. The blade equations are coupled through the rotor equation, and blade stiffness varies cyclically with the hub angle. In this study, the equations of motion are transformed from the time domain to the hub angle domain, and a scaling scheme is used which results in interdependent blade equations and eliminates the rotor equation. With hub angle as the independent coordinate, the blade equations have parametric stiffness. Then, assuming a Floquet-type solution, unforced dynamics of a turbine is investigated. The assumed solution is a product between an exponential and a periodic part. Plugging into the equations of motion, and applying harmonic balance method, an eigenvalue problem is obtained in terms of system parameters, where the eigenvalues are the characteristic exponents in the exponential part of the assumed solution. The solution to the eigenvalue problem provides parametric modal solutions. The response to an arbitrary initial condition is approximated by combining the modal solutions. Additionally, stability of the solutions is investigated by examining the characteristic exponents. The results are then compared to numerical solutions for verification.
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Acar, G.D., Feeny, B.F. (2019). Floquet-Type Analysis of Transient Vibrations of a Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine. In: Mains, M., Dilworth, B. (eds) Topics in Modal Analysis & Testing, Volume 9. Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74700-2_37
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