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CDI software products EHPIC-HERO and CHARM can be used for wind turbine analysis and design as well as rotorcraft analysis and design. CHARM and MAST software can be used to predict wake interactions and aerodynamics of multiple wind turbines under varying wind conditions.


WIND TURBINE PROJECTS
  • CDI developed a wind turbine variant of EHPIC-HERO and used the software to design wind turbine blades for Kenetech Windpower
  • CHARM/WOPWOP can be used to design aerodynamically efficient and quiet wind turbines
  • CHARM/MAST software can be used to design optimum placement and spacing between multiple wind turbines located near one another
  • BROWNOUT software can be used to analyze wind turbine blade erosion associated with debris entrainment and impact

CHARM model of multiple wind turbine wake interactions (wakes from one blade are depicted in this figure).





More aerospace projects...
Rotorcraft projects.
Rotorcraft
Fixed-Wing Aircraft Projects.
Fixed-Wing
The Fast Panel Analysis (FPA) code has been extended to general unsteady flow problems with a derivative Fast Panel Vortex or FPV code.
Fast Panel/Vortex
The VorTran-M wake module is a first-principles Eulerian vorticity transport wake module that provides an unprecedented ability to capture the true temporal and spatial structure of the rotor wake when coupled to a wide range of CFD (both Eulerian and Lagrangian) tools.
VorTran-M
MAST is a physics-based analysis enabling high-fidelity, real-time flight simulation of multiple aircraft and their wakes.
Multi-Aircraft
More projects in aerospace and other disciplines...