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PHATAS-IV user's manual : Program for Horizontal Axis wind Turbine Analysis and Simulation, version IV
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Publication date:
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ECN
Wind Energy
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1-6-2000
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ECN-C--99-093
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ECN publication
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Full text:
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135
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Abstract:
The computer program PHATAS, 'Program for Horizontal Axis wind TurbineAnalysis and Simulation', is developed for the calculation of the dynamic
behaviour and the corresponding loads on a Horizontal Axis wind Turbine, (
HAT), in time domain. The program PHATAS-IV is available for use on a DEC
Alpha work station operating under UNIX and for use on a PC operating under
Windows-95/-NT. The most significant improvements of PHATAS-IV compared to
the former version PHATAS-III are a detailed structural dynamic model for the
tower including wave loading such as occurs on offshore structures and the
implementation of an improved model for oblique inflow for which the
aerodynamic model is revised. The programs PHATAS-IV and PHATAS-III are a
further development of the PHATAS-II computer program. The PHATAS programs
are developed at ECN Wind Energy of the Netherlands Energy Research
Foundation, Petten. This document is written to serve as a user's guide and
also as a manual for PHATAS by structuring the topics and providing an index.
In this manual 'PHATAS' refers to release 'DEC-1999' of PHATAS-IV. If models
are used that are not fully tested, a warning is issued while a message is
written in each of the output files. This manual also contains descriptions
of input properties that are likely to be implemented in a following version
or beta-release. Parts in the manual related to properties that they are not
(yet) active are indicated with a bar in the margin. 22 refs.
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