Wind Energy: Current Challenges and Future Perspectives
A topical collection in Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This collection belongs to the section "Energy Science and Technology".
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Interests: climate change; buildings’ sustainability; nZEB design; renewable energies; cultural heritage preservation; buildings’ acoustics
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Interests: CFD analyses; wind energy; thermo-fluid dynamics; heat transfer; renewable energies; infrared thermography
Interests: wind energy; numerical methods for thermo-fluid dynamics; heat transfer; low-speed aerodynamics; aeroacoustics
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Topical Collection Information
Dear Colleagues,
With regard to climate change, the use of renewable energies has shown a strong increase for several years; wind energy, in particular, has represented one of the most interesting typologies, also seen in different research fields. All of the sectors related to wind energy have shown a significant development, i.e., micro, small, medium, and large wind turbine design; onshore and offshore wind farms analyses; hindcasting and forecasting energy assessment; and wind turbine noise analyses.
Despite these long years of research and realisation, there are several challenges and future developments that are characterising the present academic and industry studies, both with respect to the wind turbine design and with respect to all of the correlated aspects, starting from the energy assessment, passing trough the multi-physics interactions, the numerical simulations, and the acoustic noise emission, and so on.
Considering the interest of this theme, we are organizing a Topical Collection titled “Wind Energy: Current Challenges and Future Perspectives”, aimed at reporting the most recent finding from researchers and professional of the sector, in the scope of the following themes.
Original manuscripts covering the following broad themes are invited from researchers and agencies, namely:
- wind turbine aerodynamics
- wind turbine noise
- floating wind turbines
- numerical methods for wind turbines
- wind energy assessment.
Prof. Dr. Sergio Montelpare
Prof. Dr. Renato Ricci
Dr. Valerio D’Alessandro
Collection Editors
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Keywords
- wind turbine
- CFD
- aerodynamic design
- acoustic noise
- waves–structure interactions
- energy assessment
- multi-scale analyses
- wind turbine wake
- morphing blades