Advances in Wind Turbine Design
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Mechanical Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 457
Special Issue Editor
Interests: wind turbine; rotor design; aerodynamic design; structural design; aeroelastic modeling; controller; flow control devices; low noise rotor; low wind speed rotor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Wind energy has been established as a green and renewable solution to the increasing global energy demand. Modern wind turbines have scaled up in size to a rated power of multi-megawatts. The target of the already matured wind technology is to increase the cost effectiveness of such turbines (capacity factor and reliability) and reduce their environmental impact (mainly noise).
This Special Issue encourages the submission of papers related to: aerodynamic blade design, including airfoil shapes and blade tip; structural design and aeroelastic modeling of large and flexible wind turbine blades; development of advanced multi-input multi-output control algorithms; passive and active flow control devices (flaps, vortex generators); design of low noise emission airfoils; and design of low wind speed rotors. Numerical modelling and experimental approaches may focus on the suggestion of innovative designs improving performance and reliability, increasing exploitation of wind potential, and/or reducing the environmental impact of wind turbine rotors. The development of new methodologies and optimization algorithms may include physical or machine learning models or their combination. Validation of numerical results using experimental data is strongly encouraged. It is my great pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript for this Special Issue.
Dr. John Prospathopoulos
Guest Editor
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