Reprint
Wind Turbine Aerodynamics
Edited by
September 2019
410 pages
- ISBN978-3-03921-524-9 (Paperback)
- ISBN978-3-03921-525-6 (PDF)
This book is a reprint of the Special Issue Wind Turbine Aerodynamics that was published in
Biology & Life Sciences
Chemistry & Materials Science
Computer Science & Mathematics
Engineering
Environmental & Earth Sciences
Physical Sciences
Summary
Wind turbine aerodynamics is one of the central subjects of wind turbine technology. To reduce the levelized cost of energy (LCOE), the size of a single wind turbine has been increased to 12 MW at present, with further increases expected in the near future. Big wind turbines and their associated wind farms have many advantages but also challenges. The typical effects are mainly related to the increase in Reynolds number and blade flexibility. This Special Issue is a collection of 21 important research works addressing the aerodynamic challenges appearing in such developments. The 21 research papers cover a wide range of problems related to wind turbine aerodynamics, which includes atmospheric turbulent flow modeling, wind turbine flow modeling, wind turbine design, wind turbine control, wind farm flow modeling in complex terrain, wind turbine noise modeling, vertical axis wind turbine, and offshore wind energy. Readers from all over the globe are expected to greatly benefit from this Special Issue collection regarding their own work and the goal of enabling the technological development of new environmentally friendly and cost-effective wind energy systems in order to reach the target of 100% energy use from renewable sources, worldwide, by 2050
Format
- Paperback
License
© 2019 by the authors; CC BY-NC-ND license
Keywords
H-type floating VAWT; truss Spar floating foundation; coupling of aerodynamics and hydrodynamics; computational fluid dynamics; wind farm; complex terrain; SCADA; met mast measurements; wind turbine; simplified free vortex wake; vortex ring; aerodynamics; axial steady condition; variable pitch; H-type VAWT; straight blade; DMST model; NACA0012; wind energy; power coefficient; tip speed ratio; wind turbine blade optimization; computational fluid dynamic; actuator disc; wake effect; Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm (NSGA-II); wind turbine airfoil; dynamic stall; boundary layer separation; aerodynamic characteristics; rotor blade optimization; blade parametrization; computational fluid dynamics; OpenFOAM; gradient-based; adjoint approach; wind turbine optimization; low wind speed areas; cost of energy; particle swarm optimization; dynamic stall; pitch oscillation; oscillating freestream; rotational augmentation; wind turbine; turbulence; super-statistics; piezo-electric flow sensor; ABL stability; laminar-turbulent transition; wind speed extrapolation; atmospheric stability; wind shear; wind resource assessment; wind turbine; stall; NREL Phase VI; S809 airfoil; MEXICO; RANS; wind turbine wakes; turbulence; actuator disk; LES; wind tunnel; OpenFOAM; wind turbine; wind turbine design; optimization; blade length; economic analysis; typhoon; wind turbine; meso/microscale; aerodynamic force; mechanical performance; thermography; wind turbine blades; defects; image processing; condition monitoring; wind farm; layout optimization; design; random search; complex terrain; airfoil design; aerodynamic; wind tunnel experiment; VAWTs (Vertical axis wind turbines); computational fluid dynamics; floating offshore wind turbine; dynamic fluid body interaction; semi-submersible platform; OC5 DeepCWind; wind turbine; aerodynamics; turbulent inflow; Computational Fluid Dynamics; blade element momentum theory; actuator line method; Fatigue Loads; wind turbine noise source; wind turbine noise propagation; wind turbine wake; n/a