Research into advanced wind turbine design has shown that load alleviation strategies like
bend-twist coupled blades and coned rotors could reduce costs. However these strategies …

Multi-disciplinary Design Optimization (MDO) has been successfully applied in the
aerospace industry, so given the similarities to wind turbine design, the application of MDO …

Many researchers are exploring advanced wind turbine designs that incorporate various
passive structural load alleviation strategies. All of these methods rely on physical behavior …

To evaluate novel turbine designs, the wind energy sector extensively depends on
computational fluid dynamics (CFD). To use CFD in the design optimization process, where …

Reducing the cost of energy from wind power is a critical step towards decarbonizing the
electric grid and mitigating climate change effects. Computational models are crucial in …

Wind energy has experienced a continuous cost reduction in the last decades. A popular
cost reduction technique is to increase the rated power of the wind turbine by making it …

This study presents an aerostructural optimization process for wind turbine blades aimed at
enhancing the turbine's performance. The optimization framework integrates DAFoam as the …

We propose a new optimisation framework developed for the investigation of innovative
wind turbine blade designs. The design of wind turbines has progressively evolved over …

View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2022-1290. vid As demand grows for
wind turbines with larger blades, the design of future wind turbines must account for multi …

This paper presents a new aerodynamic model for simulating horizontal axis wind turbines.
The model is based on Lagrangian Vortex Dynamics (LVD) resembles potential flow with the …