Wind Turbine Module

The Wind Turbine Module, for use with MATLAB® and our Core Control Toolbox, provides you with all of the tools needed to design and test control systems for wind turbines-all within the MATLAB environment. Visit the API page for all of the header descriptions for every single function included! The image gallery shows additional screenshots.

Applications

• Wind turbine control system design.
• Wind turbine modeling and simulation.
• Performance analysis.
• Wind turbine design.
• Trade studies.
• Visualization.

Downloads

• Tech Brief
• User's Guide
• HAWTSim demo, speed regulation of a horizontal axis wind turbine

New in V2.0

• Double stream tube model for vertical axis wind turbines.
• VAWT with pitch controllers.
• New wind models.

Movies

• Demonstration of wind turbine visualization.

VAWT Development

• Wind turbine research