Typically, the most powerful blade is the slowest to start and Clifton-Smith (2010) found that for blades of nearly equal power extraction, the quietest blade was the slowest to start whereas the fastest starting blade was the noisiest.
The drastic change in blade shape for w = 0.5 is typical of these optimizations and indicates excessive emphasis on starting; for the reasons given in Wood (2011), the fastest starting blade has an infinitely small chord.
For example, a windy site may not require rapidly starting blades, whereas a turbine to be installed next to a house may need to be extremely quiet.
In addition, the recent advent of rapid prototyping brings the promise of cheap manufacture of the complex three-dimensional blade shape and the potential to design blades for specific applications, such as rapidly starting blades for low-wind areas or especially quiet blades for building mounting.
To design a fast-starting blade, starting time was combined with output power in an objective function and the blade allowable stress was considered as a constraint.
We also recently started tattooing blades – customising knives with messages and logos.
Table 2 for the SG6043 airfoil and Table 3 for the SD7062 give the power coefficient, starting time, blade mass, and the first flapwise natural frequency of the blade (see Hansen 2008) and the tip deflection for IEC load case H.
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Start the blade and bring it down at a fairly slow to medium speed.
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