Control co-design of 13 MW downwind two-bladed rotors to achieve 25% reduction in levelized cost of wind energy

LY Pao, DS Zalkind, DT Griffith, M Chetan… - Annual Reviews in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Wind energy is recognized worldwide as cost-effective and environmentally friendly and is
among the fastest-growing sources of electrical energy. To further decrease the cost of wind …

A state-of-the-art review of the vibration and noise of wind turbine drivetrains

Z Xu, J Wei, S Zhang, Z Liu, X Chen, Q Yan… - … Energy Technologies and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Wind energy is an important sustainable energy to achieve carbon neutrality. To capture
maximum wind energy, wind turbine sizes sharply increase and turbines work under more …

Aero-structural rapid screening of new design concepts for offshore wind turbines

ASE Mendoza, DT Griffith, M Jeong, C Qin, E Loth… - Renewable Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
The development of large-scale wind turbines is challenged by loads, mass, and cost
growth, and more flexible blades that impact power and tower clearance. Further, the long …

Hybrid-Lambda: a low specific rating rotor concept for offshore wind turbines

D Ribnitzky, F Berger, V Petrovic… - Wind Energy Science …, 2023 - wes.copernicus.org
We introduce an aerodynamic rotor concept for an offshore wind turbine which is tailored for
an increased power feed-in at low wind speeds by a substantial increase of the rotor …

Experimental study of the wake of multi-rotor turbine

XL Xiong, S Laima, H Li - Ocean Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper describes a comparative experimental study of the wake of a multi-rotor turbine
and a single-rotor turbine. The wake merge process in the multi-rotor wake is analyzed from …

Wake steering of multirotor wind turbines

GA Speakman, M Abkar, LA Martínez‐Tossas… - Wind …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, wake steering is applied to multirotor turbines to determine whether it has the
potential to reduce wind plant wake losses. Through application of rotor yaw to multirotor …

Design space exploration and decision‐making for a segmented ultralight morphing 50‐MW wind turbine

S Kianbakht, D Martin, K Johnson, D Zalkind… - Wind …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Wind turbine design encompasses many different aspects including aerodynamic, structural,
electrical, and control system design. To achieve optimal plant performance, a system …

Aerodynamic analysis of coning effects on the DTU 10 MW wind turbine rotor

Z Sun, WJ Zhu, WZ Shen, W Zhong, J Cao, Q Tao - Energies, 2020 - mdpi.com
The size of wind turbine rotors is still rapidly increasing, though many technical challenges
emerge. Novel rotor designs emerge to satisfy this up-scale trend, such as downwind load …

Aero-structural coupled optimization of a rotor blade for an upscaled 25 MW reference wind turbine

E Werthen, D Ribnitzky, D Zerbst… - Journal of Physics …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
One major challenge of the wind turbine industry is the reduction of the levelized cost of
energy (LCoE) while following the strong demand for a higher annual energy production …

Parallel Implementation of Fuzzy-PID Controllers for Pitch Control of Offshore Wind Turbines

R Wattegama, G Aggarwal, H Dawood… - … on Automation and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Offshore wind turbines, with their larger rotors designed to boost power capacity, contend
with increased aerodynamic and operational loads. These heightened loads often result in …