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Power Production and Blade Fatigue of a Wind Turbine Array Subjected to Active Yaw Control

This study investigated the power production and blade fatigue of a three-turbine array subjected to active yaw control (AYC) in full-wake and partial-wake configurations. A framework of a two-way coupled large eddy simulation (LES) and an aeroelastic blad ...

MDPI2023

Wind Turbine Wakes in Active Yaw Control: Numerical and Theoretical Studies

Mou Lin

In this thesis, we explore the best practice of simulating the wakes of the turbines under active yaw control (AYC) using large-eddy simulation (LES). In the first study, we validate the blade-element actuator disk model (ADM-BE) for a yawed wind turbine. ...

EPFL2023

Fatigue behavior and life prediction of wind turbine blade composite materials

Anastasios Vassilopoulos

Fatigue life prediction of wind turbine rotor blades is a very challenging task, as their failure is led by different failure types that act synergistically. Inherent defects like wrinkles, fiber misalignments, and voids that can be introduced during fabri ...

Woodhead Publishing (Elsevier)2023

Wind Estimation with Multirotor UAVs

Jan Skaloud, Kilian Meier

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have benefited from a tremendous increase in popularity over the past decade, which has inspired their application toward many novel and unique use cases. One of them is the use of UAVs in meteorological research, in particu ...

2022

Development of a Mechanical Wedge-Barrel Anchor for CFRP Rods: Static and Fatigue Behaviors

Alain Nussbaumer, Masoud Motavalli, Elyas Ghafoori, Hossein Heydarinouri

In this study, a mechanical anchorage for prestressed carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) rods was proposed. The proposed anchorage consisted of a steel barrel with a conical hole and three separate aluminum wedges that are in direct contact with the CF ...

ASCE-AMER SOC CIVIL ENGINEERS2021

Wind Farm Area Shape Optimization Using Newly Developed Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms

Fernando Porté Agel, Nicolas Otto Kirchner Bossi

In recent years, wind farm layout optimization (WFLO) has been extendedly developed to address the minimization of turbine wake effects in a wind farm. Considering that increasing the degrees of freedom in the decision space can lead to more efficient solu ...

MDPI2021

Mean kinetic energy distribution in finite-size wind farms: A function of turbines' arrangement

Varun Sharma, Marc Calaf Bracons, Roberto Torres Sánchez

In this work the redistribution and recovery of mean kinetic energy in a realistic, finite size wind farm is studied for neutral atmospheric boundary layer conditions. Five different wind farm configurations, with different wind turbine arrangements, are c ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

X-Shell Pavilion: A Deployable Elastic Rod Structure

Mark Pauly, Florin Isvoranu, Francis Julian Panetta, Tian Chen, Etienne Bouleau

We present the X-Shell pavilion, a lightweight structure composed of elastic beam elements joined in a special layout that allows easy on-site deployment. The structure’s undeployed assembly configuration lies mostly flat and is easy to build, consisting o ...

Ingenta2019

Multi-Objective Wind Farm Layout Optimization with unconstrained Area Shape

Fernando Porté Agel, Nicolas Otto Kirchner Bossi

It is well known that turbine wakes are responsible for considerable power losses in a wind farm. In the last two decades Wind Farm Layout Optimization (WFLO) has been extendedly used to model the minimization of such wake effects in the attempt to maximiz ...

2019

Recycled Glass Fiber Composites from Wind Turbine Waste for 3D Printing Feedstock: Effects of Fiber Content and Interface on Mechanical Performance

Rodolphe Henri, Kazem Fayazbakhsh

This research validates the viability of a recycling and reusing process for end-of-life glass fiber reinforced wind turbine blades. Short glass fibers from scrap turbine blades are reclaimed and mixed with polylactic acid (PLA) through a double extrusion ...

2019

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