chord_prof_5MW {stochLAB}

Rotor blade chord profile

Description

A data.frame giving the blade's chord width profile, i.e. the chord width along the length of the blade, provided as a proportion of its maximum width.

Usage

chord_prof_5MW

Format

A dataframe

pp_radius

radius at bird passage point, as a proportion of rotor radius (R)

chord

chord width at pp_radius, as a proportion of the maximum chord width

...

Details

This is a generic profile for a typical modern 5MW turbine used for offshore generation. Due to commercial sensitivities by blade manufacturers, some of this detailed information may not be readily available for each make/model of blade and hence generic information may have to be used.

Note

"chord_prof_5MW" is numerically identical to "coverC". "coverC" should become deprecated in future versions of the code