Numerical Simulation of Wind Turbines

• Other Authors: Ferrara, Giovanni (Editor), Bianchini, Alessandro (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: Technology: general issues; large-scale wind turbine balde; computational aeroacoustics; sound source detection; low Mach number turbulent flows; NACA0012 airfoil; fluid-structure interaction; wind turbine; atmospheric boundary layer; composite materials; gusts; wind energy; actuator line method; wind turbine simulation; regularization kernel; small wind turbine (SWT); computational fluid dynamics (CFD); composites; fluid-structure interaction (FSI); VAWT; gurney flap; CFD; RBF; power augmentation; Darrieus; turbulence; experiments; turbine wake; turbine size; large-eddy simulation; actuator surface model; wind turbine wake; actuator disk model; dynamic mode decomposition; coherent structures; wake meandering; vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT); Savonius turbine; deformable blades; power coefficient; blade load; uncertainty quantification; blade damage; AEP; winglet; computational fluid dynamics (CFD), wind energy; renewable energy; rotor blade; tip vortices; aerodynamics; ansys fluent; savonius turbine; icewind turbine; static torque; three-dimensional simulation; Delayed DES; H-Darrieus; micro wind power generation; wind turbine control; load mitigation; individual pitch control; lifting line free vortex wake; vortex methods; pitch; stall; engineering codes; n/a
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The book contains the research contributions belonging to the Special Issue "Numerical Simulation of Wind Turbines", published in 2020-2021. They consist of 15 original research papers and 1 editorial. Different topics are discussed, from innovative design solutions for large and small win...