Plant leaf-mimetic smart wind turbine blades by 4D printing

F Momeni, S Sabzpoushan, R Valizadeh, MR Morad… - Renewable Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Scientists have reported that plant leaf veins grow into an optimized architecture not only to
accomplish their biological and physiological functions but also to sustain the environmental …

[HTML][HTML] Hydro-servo-aero-elastic analysis of floating offshore wind turbines

DI Manolas, VA Riziotis, GP Papadakis, SG Voutsinas - Fluids, 2020 - mdpi.com
A fully coupled hydro-servo-aero-elastic simulator for the analysis of floating offshore wind
turbines (FOWTs) is presented. All physical aspects are addressed, and the corresponding …

Aeroelastic properties of backward swept blades

M Hansen - 49th AIAA aerospace sciences meeting including the …, 2011 - arc.aiaa.org
It is investigated how the nonlinear geometric coupling between torsion and flapwise
bending of backward swept blades affects their static and dynamic aeroelastic properties. A …

Perspectives of Peridynamic Theory in Wind Turbines Computational Modeling

MB Ageze, MA Zeleke, TA Miliket, M Ngoepe - Archives of Computational …, 2024 - Springer
The applications of wind turbines are consistently increasing across the globe. Competent
and sustainable wind energy harnessing inherently requires the implementation of optimal …

Aeroelastic analysis of wind turbines using a tightly coupled CFD–CSD method

M Carrión, R Steijl, M Woodgate, GN Barakos… - Journal of Fluids and …, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper presents aeroelastic analyses of wind turbines, using the compressible flow
Helicopter Multi-Block (HMB2) solver of Liverpool University, coupled with a Computational …

Analysis of a structural-aerodynamic fully-coupled formulation for aeroelastic response of rotorcraft

G Bernardini, J Serafini, MM Colella… - Aerospace Science and …, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper deals with a computational aeroelastic tool aimed at the analysis of the response
of rotary wings in arbitrary steady motion. It has been developed by coupling a nonlinear …

Exploiting internal resonances in nonlinear structures with cyclic symmetry as a mean of passive vibration control

S Quaegebeur, N Di Palma, B Chouvion… - … Systems and Signal …, 2022 - Elsevier
The purpose of this paper is to study how internal resonances can be used to mitigate the
vibration of cyclically symmetric systems exhibiting geometrical nonlinear effects. The …

[HTML][HTML] Investigating the level of fidelity of an actuator line model in predicting loads and deflections of rotating blades under uniform free-stream flow

N Spyropoulos, G Papadakis, JM Prospathopoulos… - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
In this paper, the accuracy of an in-house Actuator Line (AL) model is tested on aeroelastic
simulations of a Wind Turbine (WT) rotor and a helicopter Main Rotor (MR) under uniform …

Parametric study on internal resonances for a simplified nonlinear blade model

N Di Palma, B Chouvion, F Thouverez - International Journal of Non-Linear …, 2022 - Elsevier
This article proposes to determine and identify the physical contributions that drive the
internal resonance between the bending and torsion modes of a blade. The blade is …

[PDF][PDF] Hydro-aero-elastic analysis of offshore wind turbines

DI Manolas - 2016 - dspace.lib.ntua.gr
The present Ph. D. thesis aims at developing simulation tools for the integrated analysis of
offshore wind turbines detailed in two parts. The first part concludes hGAST, a general fully …