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Aerodynamic Wind-Turbine Blade Design for the National Rotor Testbed
News Article, November 13, 2015 • The NRT blade shape as viewed from the tip and at an elevation angle of 30° above the suction surface. Sandia has designed a new wind-turbine blade for the National Rotor Testbed (NRT) project and for future experiments at the Scaled Wind Farm Technology (SWiFT) facility with a specific focus...

DOE’s WETO commissions the National Rotor Testbed
News Article, October 29, 2021 • The U.S. Department of Energy’s Wind Energy Technologies Office is in the process of officially commissioning the National Rotor Testbed, an open-source wind turbine for wake control research designed by Sandia National Laboratories’ (Sandia) Wind Energy program. The NRT was 95% commissioned in 2021, and work is expected to be...
Wind Turbine at Sandia SWiFT facility at sunset

National Rotor Testbed Rotor Design Integrated Airfoil Performance Results
News Article, February 24, 2015 • The National Rotor Testbed (NRT) team is examining the effect of airfoil choice on the final design of the new rotor for the Scaled Wind Farm Technology (SWiFT) facility. The airfoil family would ideally be designed to operate in the relevant SWiFT-scale Reynold’s number range, 1–2 million, and be experimentally...