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 …

This article briefly reviews wind turbine aerodynamics, which follows an explanation of the
aerodynamic complexity. The aerodynamic models including blade momentum theory …

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is increasingly used to analyze wind turbines, and the
next logical step is to develop CFD‐based optimization to enable further gains in …

There has been much recent interest in the development of Vertical Axis Wind Turbines
(VAWTs), especially for use in off-grid or off-shore electricity generation, due to inherent …

This paper presents an investigation of the effect of steady and transient free‐stream wind
shear on the wake structure and performance characteristics of a horizontal axis wind …

Porous discs are the experimental counterparts of the numerical actuator disc concept and
are frequently used in wind tunnel studies to reproduce the far-wake characteristics of wind …

This paper analyses the effect of a mean shear similar to an atmospheric boundary layer on
the wake of a wind turbine by means of Large Eddy Simulation. More specifically, a …

Several important wind turbine unsteady flow regimes, such as those associated with the
yawed wind condition of horizontal axis machines, and most operating conditions of all …

In this study, the improvement of a horizontal-axis wind turbine performance is numerically
studied using different configurations of tip plates. To do so, we independently develop a 3 …

Overset computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methods are the most sophisticated methods
currently available to predict the unsteady motion of wind turbine blades without the need for …