The invention discloses a method for designing a wind
turbine airfoil by using a
Bessel function curve. According to the method, the third-order
Bessel function is adopted and can represent a section of curve through four control points only, and in addition, the starting point and the end point are fixed, so that only two control points are required to be changed for a section of the curve; each of an
upper wing surface and a
lower wing surface of the airfoil is represented by a section of curve, the starting points and the end points of the
upper wing surface and the
lower wing surface respectively coincide, and then the
staring points and the end points are in smooth connection. According to the invention, the airfoil profile can be controlled more conveniently and effectively by using several points in space, so that optimization design time of the airfoil is shortened, and airfoil design efficiency is improved; the designed airfoil has an extremely
high lift coefficient, so that chord length of a blade is reduced, and the material required by the blade is reduced; a higher lift-drag ratio is realized, so that the wind-power utilization coefficient is increased; the method can be popularized to design of wind
turbine airfoils of different thicknesses, plane airfoils,
turbine blade profiles and other complex curves and has a high social value and a good economic benefit.