Overview of Wind Turbine Modeling in Modelica Language
Amir Abdul Razak · International Journal of Engineering and Technology · 2012
Abstract—The wind turbine, being one of the longest developed alternatives to conventional power plant, has attracted considerable attention at many. The system needs to be developed in quick and efficient manners with low resources based on modeling and simulation method. With the development of wind turbine library in open source Modelica language, it could be used as a base for further advancement of wind turbine technology. This paper focusing on providing summary of models of wind turbine performance characteristics such as power output and shaft torque among others. Models presented could simplify and reduce time in modeling process related to wind turbine application. Many papers shown very detail derivation of the wind turbine (WT) model whereas some of the models can be presented but at some application does not need very complicated models to be applied. At the application level, simplified and final equations are preferable for the calculation and dimensioning of a certain system. This paper targets to achieve a compilation of most basic but important for WT performance characteristic modeling specifically for modeling in Modelica language. With the provided models, one can apply directly in their own simulation software accordingly. Take note that all equations here are presented with horizontal axis wind turbine (HAWT) in mind and not considering the dynamic load effect to the tower..