Review of wake management techniques for wind turbines

DR Houck - Wind Energy, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The progression of wind turbine technology has led to wind turbines being incredibly
optimized machines often approaching their theoretical maximum production capabilities …

Adaptive and parallel multiscale framework for modeling cohesive failure in engineering scale systems

S Kim, E Kissel, K Matouš - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The high computational demands of multiscale modeling necessitate advanced parallel and
adaptive strategies. To address this challenge, we introduce an adaptive method that utilizes …

Analyzing the Effects of Atmospheric Turbulent Fluctuations on the Wake Structure of Wind Turbines and Their Blade Vibrational Dynamics

A Farrell, F Ponta, A Baruah - Energies, 2024 - mdpi.com
In recent trends, a rising demand for renewable energy has driven wind turbines to larger
proportions, where lighter blade designs are often adopted to reduce the costs associated …

Simulation of the Multi-Wake Evolution of Two Sandia National Labs/National Rotor Testbed Turbines Operating in a Tandem Layout

A Baruah, F Ponta, A Farrell - Energies, 2024 - mdpi.com
The future of wind power systems deployment is in the form of wind farms comprised of
scores of such large turbines, most likely at offshore locations. Individual turbines have …

Analysis of the Aeroelastic Dynamics of Lightweight Flexible Variations of the SNL-NRT Turbine

A Farrell, F Ponta, A Baruah - Applied Mechanics, 2024 - mdpi.com
Current trends show that wind turbines are growing in size to meet a rising demand for
renewable energy generation, and their upscaled rotors have inherently become more …

Characterization of Oscillatory Response of Light-Weight Wind Turbine Rotors under Controlled Gust Pulses

F Ponta, A Farrell, A Baruah, N Yates - Fluids, 2024 - mdpi.com
Given the industry-wide trend of continual increases in the size of utility-scale wind turbines,
a point will come where reductions will need to be made in terms of the weight of the …

[HTML][HTML] Instrumentation development and testing of a wind turbine blade for sub-scale wake studies

A Hassanzadeh, J Naughton, J LoTufo… - Journal of Renewable …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Wind turbine blade aerodynamics and the resulting wake flow are complex, and wind tunnel
testing of these flows can provide critical insight. The data from such tests are also valuable …

[PDF][PDF] Large Parallel Adaptive Multiscale Modeling of Interfaces

S Kim - 2024 - curate.nd.edu
Due to the need for predictive models of nonlinear heterogeneous materials, Computational
Homogenization (CH) has emerged as a promising multiscale framework, widely recognized …

[PDF][PDF] Characterization of Oscillatory Response of Light-Weight Wind Turbine Rotors under Controlled Gust Pulses. Fluids 2024, 9, 83

F Ponta, A Farrell, A Baruah, N Yates - 2024 - digitalcommons.mtu.edu
Given the industry-wide trend of continual increases in the size of utility-scale wind turbines,
a point will come where reductions will need to be made in terms of the weight of the …

Mid-fidelity simulations and comparisons of five techniques for axial induction control of a wind turbine

D Houck, D Maniaci, CL Kelley - Wind Energy Science …, 2021 - wes.copernicus.org
As wind turbines are more frequently placed in arrays, the need to understand and mitigate
problems arising from their wakes has increased. When downstream turbines are in the …