Research on Nonlinear Modeling and Simulation for Flexible Drive Train of Wind Turbine

Wind energy has preferable economic and social benefits because of its cleanliness and free pollution, short construction period, and so on. The wind turbine is a complicated nonlinear uncertain system. So the modeling and analysis of system is crucial to the system design of wind turbines. Drive train performance of wind turbine was analyzed, and modeling methods were presented according to rigid drive train and flexible drive train. Based on those models, software has been designed to show the performance of the wind turbine, and then contrast with the result that simulated by GH Bladed software, to verify the accuracy of the models. The results show that the models can be used in optimum design and control strategy.