On motion analysis and elastic response of floating offshore wind turbines

A Lamei, M Hayatdavoodi - Journal of Ocean Engineering and Marine …, 2020 - Springer
Wind energy industry is expanded to offshore and deep water sites, primarily due to the
stronger and more consistent wind fields. Floating offshore wind turbine (FOWT) concepts …

Effectiveness of two-dimensional CFD simulations for Darrieus VAWTs: a combined numerical and experimental assessment

A Bianchini, F Balduzzi, P Bachant, G Ferrara… - Energy Conversion and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Thanks to the continuous improvement of calculation resources, computational fluid
dynamics (CFD) is expected to provide in the next few years a cost-effective and accurate …

Darrieus wind turbine blade unsteady aerodynamics: a three-dimensional Navier-Stokes CFD assessment

F Balduzzi, J Drofelnik, A Bianchini, G Ferrara, L Ferrari… - Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
Energized by the recent rapid progress in high-performance computing and the growing
availability of large computational resources, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is offering …

[HTML][HTML] An efficient method for unsteady hydrofoil simulations, based on Non-Linear Dynamic Lifting Line theory

JMK Godø, S Steen - Ocean Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper presents a Non-linear Dynamic Lifting Line (NDLL)-based method for analysing
hydrofoil vessels in waves. The method is validated, and its utility is demonstrated in a case …

A code-to-code comparison for floating offshore wind turbine simulation in realistic environmental conditions: Quantifying the impact of modeling fidelity on different …

F Papi, G Troise, R Behrens de Luna… - Wind Energy …, 2023 - wes.copernicus.org
Consensus is arising on considering floating offshore wind as the most promising
technologies to increase renewable energy generation offshore. While evolving fast from a …

[HTML][HTML] An insight into the capability of the actuator line method to resolve tip vortices

PF Melani, OS Mohamed, S Cioni… - Wind Energy …, 2024 - wes.copernicus.org
The actuator line method (ALM) is increasingly being preferred to the ubiquitous blade
element momentum (BEM) approach in several applications related to wind turbine …

A critical analysis on low-order simulation models for Darrieus VAWTs: how much do they pertain to the real flow?

A Bianchini, F Balduzzi… - … for Gas Turbines …, 2019 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
To improve the efficiency of Darrieus wind turbines, which still lacks from that of horizontal-
axis rotors, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) techniques are now extensively applied …

[HTML][HTML] Quantifying the impact of modeling fidelity on different substructure concepts–Part 2: Code-to-code comparison in realistic environmental conditions

F Papi, G Troise, R Behrens de Luna… - Wind Energy …, 2024 - wes.copernicus.org
Floating offshore wind is widely considered to be a promising technology to harvest
renewable energy in deep ocean waters and increase clean energy generation offshore …

Predicting wind turbine wake breakdown using a free vortex wake code

D Marten, CO Paschereit, X Huang, M Meinke… - AIAA Journal, 2020 - arc.aiaa.org
When modeling wind turbine wake recovery, the location of wake breakdown plays a crucial
role. The breakdown is caused by a rapid deformation of the helical near-wake vortex …

Effects of airfoil's polar data in the stall region on the estimation of darrieus wind turbine performance

D Marten, A Bianchini… - … for Gas Turbines …, 2017 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Interest in vertical-axis wind turbines (VAWTs) is experiencing a renaissance after most
major research projects came to a standstill in the mid 1990s, in favor of conventional …