Aerodynamic load control in horizontal axis wind turbines with combined aeroelastic tailoring and trailing‐edge flaps

BF Ng, R Palacios, EC Kerrigan, JMR Graham… - Wind …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents an aeroservoelastic modeling approach to investigate dynamic load
alleviation in large wind turbines with composite blades and trailing‐edge aerodynamic …

Periodic stability analysis of wind turbines operating in turbulent wind conditions

R Riva, S Cacciola, CL Bottasso - Wind Energy Science, 2016 - wes.copernicus.org
The formulation is model-independent, in the sense that it does not require knowledge of the
equations of motion of the periodic system being analyzed, and it is applicable to an …

Model-based aeroelastic analysis and blade load alleviation of offshore wind turbines

BF Ng, R Palacios, JMR Graham - International journal of control, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Offshore wind turbines take advantage of the vast energy resource in open waters but face
structural integrity challenges specific to their operating environment that require cost …

A MIMO periodic ARX identification algorithm for the Floquet stability analysis of wind turbines

R Riva, S Cacciola, CL Bottasso - Journal of Physics: Conference …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The paper presents a new stability analysis approach applicable to wind turbines. At first, a
reduced order periodic model is identified from response time histories, and then stability is …

Stability analysis of wind turbines through system identification techniques

R Riva - 2018 - politesi.polimi.it
The diameter and power of wind turbines have steadily increased during the last decades,
and we expect that future wind turbines will reach even greater diameters and speeds. The …

[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 …