Welcome to the "Getting started with Bladed" eLearning course!
Learn how to simulate the performance and structural dynamics of wind turbines using Bladed 4, the industry leading software
Course overview
Join Edoardo, our experienced Loads engineer, for a series of self-paced video lessons that will help you get up and running with Bladed 4 quickly.
By the end of this course, you'll be able to:
- navigate the Bladed 4 user interface
- understand the range of simulations and their purpose
- run both steady state and dynamic simulations
- visualise the results
- post-process the outputs
Target audience
New and returning Bladed 4 users who need an introduction or refresher to start using the software.
Prerequisites
Familiarity with wind turbine technology and loads is beneficial but not necessary. No prior knowledge of Bladed is required.
Make sure you have Bladed 4 and the Bladed Results Viewer installed:
- If you are carrying out a Bladed 4 evaluation, you should have already been provided with download links for the latest installers.
- If you have a valid Bladed support agreement, download the latest installers from the Downloads page.
- For any issues with accessing and running Bladed installers, please contact the Bladed support team.
A spreadsheet tool, such as Excel, is also required.
This course was created using Bladed 4.11; some aspects of the user interface or workflows may have changed in later Bladed versions, but the fundamental concepts are still applicable.
Total time
3.5 hours (self-paced lessons)
Contents
1. Introduction
- 1.1 Course overview (2 minutes)
- 1.2 Explore the user interface (5 minutes)
- 1.3 Turbine modelling demo (9 minutes)
- 1.4 Help and support resources (2 minutes)
2. Steady state simulations
- 2.1 Introduction to steady state simulations (3 minutes)
- 2.2 Aerodynamic calculations (4 minutes)
- 2.3 Bladed Results Viewer (6 minutes)
- 2.4 Power coefficients calculation (12 minutes)
- 2.5 Power curve calculations (5 minutes)
- 2.6 Operational loads calculations (8 minutes)
- 2.7 Knowledge check (2 minutes)
3. Dynamic simulations
- 3.1 Introduction to dynamic simulations (2 minutes)
- 3.2 Output and model settings (7 minutes)
- 3.3 Power production with transient wind (15 minutes)
- 3.4 Power production with turbulent wind (10 minutes)
4. Post-processing
- 4.1 Introduction to post-processing (5 minutes)
- 4.2 Basic statistics (6 minutes)
- 4.3 Fatigue and Ultimate loads (4 minutes)