Control co-design of 13 MW downwind two-bladed rotors to achieve 25% reduction in levelized cost of wind energy

LY Pao, DS Zalkind, DT Griffith, M Chetan… - Annual Reviews in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Wind energy is recognized worldwide as cost-effective and environmentally friendly and is
among the fastest-growing sources of electrical energy. To further decrease the cost of wind …

A state-of-the-art review of the vibration and noise of wind turbine drivetrains

Z Xu, J Wei, S Zhang, Z Liu, X Chen, Q Yan… - … Energy Technologies and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Wind energy is an important sustainable energy to achieve carbon neutrality. To capture
maximum wind energy, wind turbine sizes sharply increase and turbines work under more …

Multi‐fidelity digital twin structural model for a sub‐scale downwind wind turbine rotor blade

M Chetan, S Yao, DT Griffith - Wind Energy, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents the development of a multi‐fidelity digital twin structural model (virtual
model) of an as‐built wind turbine blade. The goal is to develop and demonstrate an …

[HTML][HTML] Investigation of the three-dimensional flow past a flatback wind turbine airfoil at high angles of attack

M Manolesos, G Papadakis - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Flatback airfoils are airfoils with a blunt trailing edge. They are currently commonly used in
the inboard part of large wind turbine blades, as they offer a number of aerodynamic …

Design space exploration and decision‐making for a segmented ultralight morphing 50‐MW wind turbine

S Kianbakht, D Martin, K Johnson, D Zalkind… - Wind …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Wind turbine design encompasses many different aspects including aerodynamic, structural,
electrical, and control system design. To achieve optimal plant performance, a system …

Framework of airfoil max lift-to-drag ratio prediction using hybrid feature mining and Gaussian process regression

Y Chen, Z Dong, J Su, Y Wang, Z Han, D Zhou… - Energy Conversion and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The maximum lift-to-drag coefficient of an airfoil directly affects the aerodynamic
performance of wind turbine. Machine learning methods are known for being really effective …

Aerodynamic analysis of coning effects on the DTU 10 MW wind turbine rotor

Z Sun, WJ Zhu, WZ Shen, W Zhong, J Cao, Q Tao - Energies, 2020 - mdpi.com
The size of wind turbine rotors is still rapidly increasing, though many technical challenges
emerge. Novel rotor designs emerge to satisfy this up-scale trend, such as downwind load …

The parametric modeling and two-objective optimal design of a downwind blade

B Xu, Z Li, Z Zhu, X Cai, T Wang, Z Zhao - Frontiers in Energy …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
To cope with the future challenges to the blade that will be introduced by the development of
extreme-scale wind turbines, this study focuses on the optimization design of the …

Long-term fatigue reliability enhancement of horizontal axis wind turbine blade

MM Sajeer, A Chakraborty - Wind and Structures, 2021 - koreascience.kr
The enhancement of fatigue life of ultra-large horizontal axis wind turbine blade using
longitudinal stiffening is the theme of this work. For this purpose, a tendon made of shape …

Performance Analysis of Ultra-Scale Downwind Wind Turbine Based on Rotor Cone Angle Control

Z Li, B Xu, X Shen, H Xiao, Z Hu, X Cai - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
The theoretical feasibility of the power output strategy based on rotor cone angle control for
ultra-scale downwind wind turbines is studied in this paper via the Open FAST simulation …