Recent Advances in Wind Turbines
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A3: Wind, Wave and Tidal Energy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 5 March 2025 | Viewed by 25
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Interests: wind turbine; vibrations; aeroelasticity; fault diagnosis; wakes; SCADA; applied aerodynamics; mechanical system dynamics
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Interests: wind engineering; wind turbine; structural response of small size wind turbines; wind response models of slender structures
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The increasing attention paid to distributed power generation for smart cities and green buildings has been accompanied by a large interest in micro and small wind turbines. Small turbines are a particularly fascinating field, allowing for a widespread diffusion of clean and renewable energy sources throughout their surrounding territories. However, this growing interest is not accompanied by appropriate technological improvement; therefore, they still play a marginal role in energy production. In this context, a stark contrast exists between the potential and reality, which appears even more striking when compared to the large wind turbine sector.
The behaviour of small-sized generators is often even more complex than that of the large ones due to complex wind flow and the great speed of rotation inducing fluid–structure interactions. The proximity of the rotor level to the ground, such as in an urban environment or island location, favours the presence of large turbulence and gusty wind, which can have a detrimental effect on energy production, structural safety, and effective lifetime. In addition, for these reasons, there is still a need to further increase the knowledge on and develop the technology of these specific facilities and to improve calculation models for describing their actual behaviour in the atmospheric boundary layer, in both parked and operating conditions.
This Special Issue welcomes research addressing the aforementioned topics, considering both the efficiency of the power plant and the assessment of the structural behaviour of vertical or horizontal small-sized wind turbines. Contributions regarding experimental tests, in-field installations, and full-scale monitoring are also welcome, as well as research papers developing calculation procedures of the load modelling and dynamic response, which are useful for design and new certification standards.
Dr. Francesco Castellani
Dr. Luisa Pagnini
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- small-sized wind turbines
- power curve
- dynamic response
- wind load
- experimental investigations
- full-scale experiments
- fatigue problems
- turbulence effects
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