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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"wind turbine aerodynamics"”.
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Effect of turbine motion on floating off shore wind turbine aerodynamics
… growth has driven the continuous development of wind energy system design and its push for larger and more efficient wind turbines, especially in offshore environments. Floating Offshore Wind Turbines (FOWTs) are a promising alternative for capturing high wind energy potential in more difficult …
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Turbulence Modeling and Simulation of Unsteady Transitional Boundary Layers and Wakes with Application to Wind Turbine Aerodynamics
Wind energy industry thrived in the last three decades, environmental concerns and government regulations stimulate studies on wind farm location selection and wind turbine design. Full-scale experiments and high-fidelity simulations are restrictive due to the prohibitively high cost, while the …
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Time-domain and harmonic balance turbulent Navier-Stokes analysis of wind turbine aerodynamics using a fully coupled low-speed preconditioned multigrid solver
… a particular emphasis on the steady and unsteady aerodynamics analysis of complex low speed turbulent flows. Such turbulent flow problems include horizontal axis wind turbine (HAWT) and vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) operating at design and off-design conditions. On the algorithmic side, the …
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A CFD study of fluid-structure interaction problems for floating offshore wind turbines
… of the fastest growing renewable energy sources, wind energy is playing an increasingly important part in addressing the climate change and energy crisis issues the world is currently facing. The abundance of wind resource in offshore areas makes them a popular choice for turbine installation. In …
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Computational modeling of wind turbine wake interactions
The rapid expansion of the wind energy market necessitates the need for advanced computational modeling and understanding of wind turbine aerodynamics and wake interactions. The following thesis work looks to study turbulence closure methods widely used in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and …
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A Comparative Study of Two Solution Methods for Blade Momentum Equations Used in the Aerodynamic Analysis and Design of Wind Turbines
… equations are widely used for analyzing the wind turbine aerodynamics and for turbine blade design. Compared to the classical approach to the solution of BEM equations which is relatively complex and can sometime lead to non-convergent solution, recently Andrew Ning has described a simpler …
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Estudio integral del flujo en la turbina y la estela de aerogeneradores experimentales
… to deepen the knowledge on the horizontal-axis wind turbine aerodynamics through the study of the flow field through the rotor, the blade-tower interaction and the near-wake flow field of the experimental MEXICO and Tjaereborg wind turbines using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) methods. The …
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Design and Analysis of a Small-Scale Wind Energy Conversion System
… to present detailed analysis of the small scale wind energy conversion system (WECS) design and implementation. The dissertation will focus on implementing a hardware prototype to be used for testing different control strategies applied to small scale WECSs. Novel control algorithms will be …
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Advanced Instrumentation and Measurements Techniques for Near Surface Flows
The development of aerodynamic boundary layers on wind turbine blades is an important consideration in their performance. It can be quite challenging to replicate full scale conditions in laboratory experiments, and advanced diagnostics become valuable in providing data not available from …