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 wind turbine to control, from advanced simulation techniques to noise prediction. The variety of methods used in the research contributions testifies the need for a holistic approach to the design and simulation of modern wind turbines and will be able to stimulate the interest of the wind energy community.