Advances and opportunities in wind energy harvesting using plasma actuators: a review

J Omidi - Clean Energy, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The dielectric barrier discharge plasma actuator has been recognized as a leading
technology for controlling fluid flow and has found remarkable applications in wind energy …

Power improvement of NREL 5-MW wind turbine using multi-DBD plasma actuators

A Ebrahimi, M Movahhedi - Energy Conversion and Management, 2017 - Elsevier
The present study numerically investigates the feasibility of using multiple dielectric barrier
discharge (multi-DBD) plasma actuators as a novel approach for active flow control over a …

Aerodynamic enhancement and improving the performance of a six-megawatt DOWEC wind turbine by micro-plasma actuator

J Omidi, K Mazaheri - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
We have investigated the usage of a Dielectric Barrier Discharge (DBD) plasma actuator to
improve the aerodynamic performance of an offshore 6 MW wind turbine. By controlling the …

Simulation of DBD plasma actuator effect on aerodynamic performance improvement using a modified phenomenological model

K Mazaheri, J Omidi, KC Kiani - Computers & Fluids, 2016 - Elsevier
An improved phenomenological model is presented for numerical simulation of a Dielectric
Barrier Discharge (DBD) plasma actuator for separation control of high angle of attack flow …

Performance enhancements on wind turbines using flow controllers: A review

K Kord, A Noori, N Hasanpour… - Wind Energy …, 2024 - wes.copernicus.org
An effective strategy for enhancing the performance of wind turbines has been identified in
the utilization of flow controllers. In this review paper, recent advances in flow control …

Improving the performance of a numerical model to simulate the EHD interaction effect induced by dielectric barrier discharge

J Omidi, K Mazaheri - International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, 2017 - Elsevier
Over the past decade, there has been a growing interest in dielectric-barrier-discharge
(DBD) plasma actuators. The lack of a general model to accurately simulate the related …

Application of dielectric barrier discharge to improve the flashback limit of a lean premixed dump combustor

P Versailles, W Ali Chishty, H Duc Vo - 2012 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
In recent years, lean-premixed (LP) combustors have been widely studied due to their
potential to reduce NOx emissions in comparison to diffusion type combustors. However, the …

Wind turbine generated power enhancement by plasma actuator

J Omidi, K Mazaheri - arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.07046, 2020 - arxiv.org
Here we have investigated the usage of a Dielectric Barrier Discharge (DBD) plasma
actuator to improve the aerodynamic performance of an offshore 6MW wind turbine. By …

Separated pitch control at tip: innovative blade design explorations for large MW wind turbine blades

R Agarwala, PI Ro - Journal of Wind Energy, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This paper focuses on the deployment and evaluation of a separated pitch control at blade
tip (SePCaT) control strategy for large megawatt (MW) wind turbine blade and explorations …

DBD plasma actuator effect on mid-blade aerodynamics enhancement of a NREL 5-MW wind turbine

J Omidi - … International Conference on Futuristic Technologies in …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The utilization of a plasma actuator to increase the aerodynamic performance of a 5-MW
offshore NREL wind turbine is studied in this paper. To boost the total production capacity …