Snow-powered research on utility-scale wind turbine flows

J Hong, A Abraham - Acta Mechanica Sinica, 2020 - Springer
This paper provides a review of the general experimental methodology of snow-powered
flow visualization and super-large-scale particle image velocimetry (SLPIV), the …

Enhancing Wind Turbine Blade Preventive Maintenance Procedure through Computational Fluid Dynamics-Based Prediction of Wall Shear Stress

W Palasai, C Plengsa-Ard, M Kaewbumrung - Sustainability, 2024 - mdpi.com
Wind turbine blades are essential parts of wind energy systems and are frequently exposed
to harsh environmental elements, such as strong winds, turbulence, and corrosive …

Experimental investigation of the upstream turbulent flow modifications in front of a scaled tidal turbine

P Druault, G Germain - Renewable Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract A 1: 20 scaled three-bladed horizontal-axis tidal turbine is positioned in the wake
flows of two wall-mounted obstacles: a square cylinder and a combination of a cube in front …

Particle image velocimetry investigation of the flow for the curved type wind turbine shroud

A İlhan, S TÜMSE, M TAŞÇI, M Bilgili… - Journal of Applied Fluid …, 2022 - avesis.cu.edu.tr
Determining the flow structure in the flanged diffuser shrouding designed to be used for a
wind turbine, plays a vital role in improving efficiency in small-scale wind turbine technology …

Induction study of a horizontal axis tidal turbine: Analytical models compared with experimental results

L Jouenne, P Druault, JF Krawczynski, G Germain - Ocean Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
In a water channel, a scale horizontal axis tidal turbine is positioned in a low-disturbance
uniform flow, and Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) measurements are used to investigate …

Characterization of atmospheric coherent structures and their impact on a utility-scale wind turbine

A Abraham, J Hong - Flow, 2022 - cambridge.org
Atmospheric turbulent velocity fluctuations are known to increase wind turbine structural
loading and accelerate wake recovery, but the impact of vortical coherent structures in the …

Mechanisms of dynamic near-wake modulation of a utility-scale wind turbine

A Abraham, LA Martínez-Tossas… - Journal of Fluid …, 2021 - cambridge.org
The current study uses large eddy simulations to investigate the transient response of a
utility-scale wind turbine wake to dynamic changes in atmospheric and operational …

An inverse method for wind turbine blade design with given distributions of load coefficients

G Dong, J Qin, Z Li, X Yang - Wind, 2022 - mdpi.com
It is shown in the literature that wind turbine designs with different load distributions have
different wake features. To systematically study how different load distributions affect turbine …

The actuator disk as a wind turbine model: An experimental assessment of the fluid dynamics

MK Vinnes - 2023 - ntnuopen.ntnu.no
Climate change is one of the major challenges of our time. With ambitions to keep the
average global temperature below 1: 5ý C above pre-industrial levels, significant efforts to …

Organization and scaling of coherent structures in the outer region of high-Reynolds-number turbulent boundary layers

M Heisel - 2020 - search.proquest.com
Recent advances in high-Reynolds-number turbulence have suggested there is a general
self-organization of coherent structures in the logarithmic and wake regions of boundary …