Wind turbines are complex systems where component‐level changes can have significant
system‐level effects. Effective wind turbine optimization generally requires an integrated …

To make wind energy cost competitive with traditional resources, wind turbines are
commonly placed in groups. Aerodynamic interaction between the turbines causes sub …

The objective of this research was to develop and compare various airfoil precomputational
parameterization and analysis techniques for aerostructural optimization of wind turbine …

Actuator cylinder theory is an effective approach for analyzing the aerodynamic performance
of vertical axis wind turbines at a conceptual design level. Existing actuator cylinder theory …

This thesis explores the effect that the unsteady hydrodynamics of the marine climate has on
the load generation and subsequent durability of horizontal axis tidal stream turbines (TSTs) …

Wind turbine loads predictions by blade-element momentum theory using the standard tip-
loss correction have been shown to over-predict loading near the blade tip in comparison to …

A simple unsteady blade element analysis is used to account for the effect of the trailing
wake on the induced velocity of a wind turbine rotor undergoing fast changes in pitch angle …

Increasing international interest in wind energy research has resulted in the development of
many different software codes for the various phases of wind energy system design. The …

In this thesis, we first develop a second-order corrected-explicit-implicit domain
decomposition scheme (SCEIDD) for the parallel approximation of convection-diffusion …

Energy is a growing issue in the world. Most of the energy used in the world today comes
from fossil fuels. The use of these resources has a huge impact on the environment through …