An Experimental Performance Assessment of a Passively Controlled Wind Turbine Blade Concept: Part A—Isotropic Materials

N Papadakis, C Condaxakis - Energies, 2024 - mdpi.com
This paper is the first part of a two-part series, which presents preliminary findings on a novel
flexible curved wind turbine blade designed for passive control, comparing its aerodynamic …

Wind Turbine Aeroelastic Stability in OpenFAST

P Bortolotti, M Chetan, E Branlard… - Journal of Physics …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Wind turbines are growing in size and increasingly suffer from aeroelastic instabilities.
Unfortunately, numerical models often show inconsistent results during verification studies …

On the influence of environmental and operational variability on modal parameters of offshore wind support structures

D Augustyn, N Cosack, MD Ulriksen - Marine Structures, 2022 - Elsevier
The present paper explores the effect of environmental and operational variability (EOV) on
the modal parameters of offshore wind substructures. A non-linear numerical model of a …

[PDF][PDF] A Research Framework for the Multidisciplinary Design and Optimization of Wind Turbines

L Sartori, S Cacciola, A Croce… - Design Optimization of …, 2020 - library.oapen.org
The design of very large wind turbines is a complex task which requires the development of
dedicated tools and techniques. In this chapter, we present a system-level design procedure …