Lptv Subspace Analysis of Wind Turbines Data

International audience; The modal analysis of a wind turbine has been generally handled with the assumption that this structure can be accurately modeled as linear time-invariant. Such assumption may be misleading for stability analysis, especially, with the current development of very large wind turbines with complex dynamic behavior (nonlinearity, aeroelastic coupling). Therefore in this paper, the inherent periodically time-varying dynamics of wind turbines (and for rotating systems, in general) is taken into account. Recently a subspace algorithm for modal analysis of rotating systems has been proposed. It is tested on a simulated and real data from a wind turbine.