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Filippo De Girolamo, Lorenzo Tieghi, Giovanni Delibra, Valerio Francesco Barnabei and Alessandro Corsini
Wind turbines play a major role in the European Green Deal for clean energy transition. Noise is a critical aspect among open technological issues, as it determines the possibility of onshore installations near inhabited places and the possible detriment...
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Yuanxing Zhao, Xuan Gong, Jianwen Wang, Liru Zhang and Yefei Bai
The dynamic yaw significantly affects the aerodynamic load distribution of wind turbines, and the aerodynamic load is one of the main influencing factors of wind turbine structural stress variation. Taking the NACA4415 horizontal axis wind turbine design...
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Xuan Bai, Hao Zhan and Baigang Mi
Flow separation occurs when wind turbines operate under large inflow conditions, which seriously affects the utilization of wind energy and reduces the output power of the blade. Therefore, a composite flow control configuration for horizontal axis wind ...
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Hamid R. Kaviani and Mohammad Moshfeghi
Blade optimization methods are crucial for wind turbine design. In this research, a new set of values for the parameters of the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) method is proposed, and its effects on the enhancement of the power generation of the NREL W...
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Zhaoyong Mao, Tianqi Zhang, Guangyong Yang and Wenlong Tian
Gurney flaps can enhance the hydrodynamic efficiency of airfoils, and they are currently used in several applications, including racing cars and wind turbines. However, there is a lack of studies in the literature on the application of Gurney flaps on th...
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Kai Wang, Tianhui Liu, Yuanchen Wan, Muk Chen Ong and Tiecheng Wu
Improving power output and reducing costs are crucial to the sustainable development of offshore wind power. In the present study, a dual-rotor wind turbine (DRWT) is proposed to improve wind energy capture efficiency by adding an auxiliary rotor behind ...
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Eduard Lotovskyi, Angelo P. Teixeira and C. Guedes Soares
This paper analyses the production availability and the associated maintenance costs of an offshore wind turbine with a horizontal axis configuration using Petri Nets modelling with Monte Carlo Simulation. For this purpose, different features are impleme...
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Diane Scicluna, Claire De Marco Muscat-Fenech, Tonio Sant, Giuliano Vernengo and Tahsin Tezdogan
There exist vast areas of offshore wind resources with water depths greater than 100 m that require floating structures. This paper provides a detailed analysis on the hydrostatic stability characteristics of a novel floating wind turbine concept. The pr...
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Izleena Md Iqbar, Masdi Muhammad, Syed Ihtsham Ul-Haq Gilani and Frank Adam
In this study, the viability of harnessing wind energy for offshore oil and gas (O&G) platforms as a micro-grid solution in low wind speed regions to power O&G platforms is explored. However, wind, as a renewable energy, is known to be highly var...
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Florin Popescu, Razvan Mahu, Eugen Rusu and Ion V. Ion
In spite of the tremendous advances in computing power and continuous improvements in simulation software made in recent decades, the accurate estimation of wind turbine performance using numerical methods remains challenging. Wind turbine aerodynamics, ...
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