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Long-term monitoring of existing wind turbine towers and fatigue performance of UHPFRC under compressive stresses

An increasing number of onshore wind turbines in Europe will reach the end of their relatively short service duration, currently limited to 20 years by the design codes and many owners already wish to extend the service duration of their turbines. Recently ...

EPFL2018

Shifts in wind energy potential following land-use driven vegetation dynamics in complex terrain

Fernando Porté Agel, Alexandre Buttler, François Golay, Jiannong Fang, Alexander Ludwig Johannes Peringer

Many mountainous regions with high wind energy potential are characterized by multi-scale variabilities of vegetation in both spatial and time dimensions, which strongly affect the spatial distribution of wind resource and its time evolution. To this end, ...

2018

Wind turbine wakes: exploring the underexplored

Sina Shamsoddin

In this thesis, we aim to contribute to the research on two topics, namely, vertical-axis wind turbines (VAWTs) and wind turbines on topography. In the VAWT part, first, we implement two actuator-type VAWT parameterization models (i.e. the actuator swept- ...

EPFL2018

Generalized Telegrapher's Equations for Buried Curved Wires

Damir Cavka

The paper deals with the calculation of transient currents and voltages along curved wire structures buried in a lossy ground using the generalized Telegrapher's equations. The influence of a lossy half space is taken into account by the simplified reflect ...

IEEE2018

Is the Thorpe and Mason model valid for drifting and blowing snow?

Varun Sharma, Michael Lehning, Francesco Comola

Sublimation of drifting and blowing snow has been recognized as an important component of the surface mass budget of polar and alpine regions. The Thorpe and Mason (TM) model is the basis of all existing small and largescale estimates of drifting snow sub ...

Copernicus2018

Interaction of atmospheric boundary layer flow with wind turbines

Majid Bastankhah

As wind turbines operate within the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL), the study of their interaction with the ABL flow can help us better understand and predict their performance. In addition to the performance of wind turbines, this interaction has an eff ...

EPFL2017

Optimizing the parameterization of deep mixing and internal seiches in one-dimensional hydrodynamic models: a case study with Simstrat v1.3

Alfred Johny Wüest, Damien Bouffard, Robert Vincent Schwefel, Adrien Gaudard, Carl Love Mikael Råman Vinnå, Martin Schmid

This paper presents an improvement of a one-dimensional lake hydrodynamic model (Simstrat) to characterize the vertical thermal structure of deep lakes. Using physically based arguments, we refine the transfer of wind energy to basin-scale internal waves ( ...

Copernicus Gesellschaft Mbh2017

Wind tunnel study of the wind turbine interaction with a boundary-layer flow: Upwind region, turbine performance, and wake region

Fernando Porté Agel, Majid Bastankhah

Comprehensive wind tunnel experiments were carried out to study the interaction of a turbulent boundary layer with a wind turbine operating under different tip-speed ratios and yaw angles. Force and power measurements were performed to characterize the var ...

Amer Inst Physics2017

On Wind Turbine Impedance Analysis via Different Approaches

Antonio Sunjerga

Lightning is one of the main causes of damage to wind turbines. The continuous increase in the wind turbine heights makes these structures even more vulnerable against lightning. As a result, the design of proper lightning protection system is of high impo ...

Ieee2017

Are Standardized Lightning Current Waveforms Suitable for Aircraft and Wind Turbine Blades Made of Composite Materials?

Marcos Rubinstein, Anastasios Vassilopoulos

The use of sensitive electronics in avionics and wind generation systems, as well as the introduction of lower-conductivity composite materials make it important to ensure adequate lightning testing of airplanes and wind turbines. Evidence exists suggestin ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

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