Offshore wind turbines present novel challenges to the field of rotor aerodynamics because
of complex behaviours associated with six degrees of freedom motions of the platform. The …

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 …

Fast and effective numerical models describing the effect of platform motion on the
performance of floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) are fundamental to assess energy …

To study wind farm aerodynamics (WFA), the Wind Power industry currently relies on simple
Engineering Models (EM) that simulate wind farms using basic principles of physics and …

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 …

Results obtained from CFD simulations are sensitive to many numerical settings, such as
grid spacing, time increment, turbulence models, etc. Therefore, rigorous quantification of …

In this work, we present the results of the wake characteristics of a model-scale horizontal-
axis wind turbine (HAWT) obtained from high-fidelity CFD simulations. A thorough …

A large‐eddy simulation framework, dubbed as the Virtual Wind Simulator (VWiS), for
simulating turbulent flow over wind turbines and wind farms in complex terrain is developed …

The objective of this work is to develop and test a set of general guidelines for choosing
parameters to be used in the state-of-the-art actuator line method (ALM) for modeling wind …

This paper presents a new numerical technique for simulating two-dimensional wind turbine
flow. The method, denoted as the 2D actuator surface technique, consists of a two …