NREL 5 MW ACOUSTIC CFD STUDY

For our final project in computational fluid and thermal engineering, Jacob Koke and I designed a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) study on the acoustics National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) 5 MW wind turbine. The purpose of this study was to address the common complaint of wind turbines which is noise. Our objective was to study how and where acoustic power is generated on wind turbine blades and propose a new geometry to solve the issue. Click on the links below to view the presentation and read the final report.