Wind turbines are large, complex dynamically flexible structures that operate in turbulent
and unpredictable environmental conditions where efficiency and reliability are highly …

Through numerical simulations that use trailing edge flaps as active aerodynamic load
control devices on wind turbines that range from 0.6 MW-5MW rated power, a 20-32 …

The size of wind turbines is constantly increasing following the increasing demand for higher
installed power capacities and lower cost of wind energy. However, the traditional wind …

Modern wind turbines are steadily increasing in size, with recent models boasting rotor
diameters greater than 120 m. Wind turbines are subjected to significant and rapid …

This work presents a numerical framework to investigate distributed aerodynamic control
devices for application in large wind turbines. Tool capabilities were extended to facilitate …

† The effect of implementing Active Aerodynamic Load Control on the trailing edge of the
blade tip for 1.5 MW and 5MW wind turbines has been investigated. These results are based …

This paper presents an aeroservoelastic modeling approach to investigate dynamic load
alleviation in large wind turbines with composite blades and trailing‐edge aerodynamic …

As the diameter of wind turbine rotors increases, the loads across the rotors are becoming
more uneven due to the inhomogeneous wind field. Therefore more advanced passive or …

Active load reduction strategies such as individual pitch control (IPC) and trailing edge flap
(TEF) actuation present ways of reducing the fatigue loads on the blades of wind turbines …

The present work contains a deformable trailing edge flap controller integrated in a
numerically simulated modern, variablespeed, pitch‐regulated megawatt (MW)‐size wind …