Recent technology and challenges of wind energy generation: A review

S Roga, S Bardhan, Y Kumar, SK Dubey - … Energy Technologies and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Energy is an integral part of economic growth and social development. Renewable energy
sources are naturally occurring, which can help in reducing the dependency on non …

Review of computational fluid dynamics for wind turbine wake aerodynamics

B Sanderse, SP Van der Pijl, B Koren - Wind energy, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
This article reviews the state‐of‐the‐art numerical calculation of wind turbine wake
aerodynamics. Different computational fluid dynamics techniques for modeling the rotor and …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of pitch angle on power performance and aerodynamics of a vertical axis wind turbine

A Rezaeiha, I Kalkman, B Blocken - Applied energy, 2017 - Elsevier
Due to growing interest in wind energy harvesting offshore as well as in the urban
environment, vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) have recently received renewed interest …

State of the art in the aeroelasticity of wind turbine blades: Aeroelastic modelling

L Wang, X Liu, A Kolios - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
With the continuous increasing size and flexibility of large wind turbine blades, aeroelasticity
has been becoming a significant subject for wind turbine blade design. There have been …

Large-eddy simulation of a very large wind farm in a stable atmospheric boundary layer

H Lu, F Porté-Agel - Physics of Fluids, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
When deployed as large arrays, wind turbines significantly interact among themselves and
with the atmospheric boundary layer. In this study, we integrate a three-dimensional large …

Aerodynamic aspects of wind energy conversion

JN Sørensen - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2011 - annualreviews.org
This article reviews the most important aerodynamic research topics in the field of wind
energy. Wind turbine aerodynamics concerns the modeling and prediction of aerodynamic …

A large-eddy simulation study of wake propagation and power production in an array of tidal-current turbines

MJ Churchfield, Y Li… - … Transactions of the …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
This paper presents our initial work in performing large-eddy simulations of tidal turbine
array flows. First, a horizontally periodic precursor simulation is performed to create turbulent …

Coupled multi-body dynamics and CFD for wind turbine simulation including explicit wind turbulence

Y Li, AM Castro, T Sinokrot, W Prescott, PM Carrica - Renewable Energy, 2015 - Elsevier
A high fidelity approach for wind turbine aero-elastic simulations including explicit
representation of the atmospheric wind turbulence is presented. The approach uses a …

A review of physical and numerical modeling techniques for horizontal-axis wind turbine wakes

MM Amiri, M Shadman, SF Estefen - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2024 - Elsevier
Wake effects within a wind farm are identified as one of the main factors impacting wind farm
power production and fatigue loading on wind turbines' structural elements. An efficient …

Actuator line/Navier–Stokes computations for the MEXICO rotor: comparison with detailed measurements

WZ Shen, WJ Zhu, JN Sørensen - Wind energy, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
In the European collaborative MEXICO (Model Experiments in Controlled Conditions)
project, a series of experiments was carried out on a 4.5 m diameter wind turbine rotor to …