Aerodynamic aspects of wind energy conversion

JN Sørensen - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2011 - annualreviews.org
This article reviews the most important aerodynamic research topics in the field of wind
energy. Wind turbine aerodynamics concerns the modeling and prediction of aerodynamic …

Review paper on wind turbine aerodynamics

MOL Hansen, H Aagaard Madsen - 2011 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
The paper describes the development and description of the aerodynamic models used to
estimate the aerodynamic loads on wind turbine constructions. This includes a status of the …

Actuator line/Navier–Stokes computations for the MEXICO rotor: comparison with detailed measurements

WZ Shen, WJ Zhu, JN Sørensen - Wind energy, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
In the European collaborative MEXICO (Model Experiments in Controlled Conditions)
project, a series of experiments was carried out on a 4.5 m diameter wind turbine rotor to …

Rotational effects on the blade flow of a horizontal axis wind turbine under axial and yawed inflow conditions

C Zhu, Y Qiu, Y Feng, W Zhong, T Wang - Ocean Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Unsteady aerodynamic loads and fluctuating output power of wind turbines remain
challenging to predict accurately due to the incomplete understanding of blade flow …

The impact of yaw error on aeroelastic characteristics of a horizontal axis wind turbine blade

MS Jeong, SW Kim, I Lee, SJ Yoo, KC Park - Renewable energy, 2013 - Elsevier
Horizontal axis wind turbines operate under yawed conditions for a considerable period of
time due to the power control mechanism or sudden changes in the wind direction. This in …

A numerical study on the angle of attack to the blade of a horizontal-axis offshore floating wind turbine under static and dynamic yawed conditions

B Wen, X Tian, X Dong, Z Peng, W Zhang, K Wei - Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
The offshore floating wind turbines (OFWT) inevitably experience yawed flows, which result
in fluctuations in the angle of attacks (AOAs) of the airfoils and therefore considerably impact …

Low Reynolds number effects on aerodynamic loads of a small scale wind turbine

H Lee, DJ Lee - Renewable Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Small-scale or scaled-down wind turbines for model experiments mostly operate in low-
Reynolds-number flow. The nonlinear variations of aerodynamic coefficients with respect to …

[HTML][HTML] Determination of the angle of attack on a research wind turbine rotor blade using surface pressure measurements

R Soto-Valle, S Bartholomay, J Alber… - Wind Energy …, 2020 - wes.copernicus.org
In this paper, a method to determine the angle of attack on a wind turbine rotor blade using a
chordwise pressure distribution measurement was applied. The approach used a reduced …

Unsteady aerodynamic analysis for offshore floating wind turbines under different wind conditions

BF Xu, TG Wang, Y Yuan… - … Transactions of the …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
A free-vortex wake (FVW) model is developed in this paper to analyse the unsteady
aerodynamic performance of offshore floating wind turbines. A time-marching algorithm of …

[图书][B] Handbook of wind energy aerodynamics

B Stoevesandt, G Schepers, P Fuglsang, Y Sun - 2022 - books.google.com
This handbook provides both a comprehensive overview and deep insights on the state-of-
the-art methods used in wind turbine aerodynamics, as well as their advantages and limits …