Review of state of the art in smart rotor control research for wind turbines

TK Barlas, GAM van Kuik - Progress in Aerospace Sciences, 2010 - Elsevier
This article presents a review of the state of the art and present status of active aeroelastic
rotor control research for wind turbines. Using advanced control concepts to reduce loads on …

Review of computational and experimental approaches to analysis of aerodynamic performance in horizontal-axis wind turbines (HAWTs)

CJ Bai, WC Wang - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Horizontal-axis wind turbines (HAWTs) are the primary devices used in the wind energy
sector. Systems used to evaluate the design of turbine blades and generators are key to …

Experimental and theoretical study of wind turbine wakes in yawed conditions

M Bastankhah, F Porté-Agel - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2016 - cambridge.org
This work is dedicated to systematically studying and predicting the wake characteristics of a
yawed wind turbine immersed in a turbulent boundary layer. To achieve this goal, wind …

A cost-effective CNN-BEM coupling framework for design optimization of horizontal axis tidal turbine blades

J Xu, L Wang, J Yuan, J Shi, Z Wang, B Zhang, Z Luo… - Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
The paper proposes a novel cost-effective framework that combines deep learning
convolutional neural network (CNN) and blade element momentum (BEM) models for …

Wind turbine aerodynamics and vorticity-based methods: Fundamentals and recent applications

E Branlard - 2017 - books.google.com
The book introduces the fundamentals of fluid-mechanics, momentum theories, vortex
theories and vortex methods necessary for the study of rotors aerodynamics and wind …

[HTML][HTML] Horizontal axis wind turbine blade design methodologies for efficiency enhancement—A review

S Rehman, MM Alam, LM Alhems, MM Rafique - Energies, 2018 - mdpi.com
Among renewable sources of energy, wind is the most widely used resource due to its
commercial acceptance, low cost and ease of operation and maintenance, relatively much …

A review of numerical modelling and optimisation of the floating support structure for offshore wind turbines

E Faraggiana, G Giorgi, M Sirigu, A Ghigo… - Journal of Ocean …, 2022 - Springer
Compared to onshore wind power, floating offshore wind power is a promising renewable
energy source due to higher wind speeds and larger suitable available areas. However …

Wind tunnel study of the wind turbine interaction with a boundary-layer flow: Upwind region, turbine performance, and wake region

M Bastankhah, F Porté-Agel - Physics of Fluids, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
Comprehensive wind tunnel experiments were carried out to study the interaction of a
turbulent boundary layer with a wind turbine operating under different tip-speed ratios and …

The power performance of an offshore floating wind turbine in platform pitching motion

B Wen, X Dong, X Tian, Z Peng, W Zhang, K Wei - Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
The platform pitching motion of the Offshore Floating Wind Turbine (OFWT) introduces an
additional wind profile to the rotor, which may significantly impact the power performance of …

Influences of surge motion on the power and thrust characteristics of an offshore floating wind turbine

B Wen, X Tian, X Dong, Z Peng, W Zhang - Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
The power and thrust characteristics of an offshore floating wind turbine (OFWT) not only
depend on the tip speed ratio λ and the blade pitch angle θ, but also closely relate to the …