Numerical investigations of a novel vertical axis wind turbine using Blade Element Theory‐Vortex Filament Method ( BET ‐ VFM )

Numerical Investigations on the Effect of Blade Angles of a Vertical Axis Wind Turbine on its Performance Output

The current energetic and economic context brings the need of a proper asset management of power generation facilities and components. This paper is intended to provide a wide view of the state of the art in asset management, with a special focus on fault detection and diagnosis. The different stages involved in asset management are defined and arranged as layers over the supervised process: Ac...

Numerical Investigations on the Performance Degradation of a Vertical Axis Wind Turbine Operating in Dusty Environment

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A Comparison between Hybrid and Experimental Extended Polars for the Numerical Prediction of Vertical-Axis Wind Turbine Performance using Blade Element-Momentum Algorithm

Performance improvement of a wind turbine blade using a developed inverse design method

The purpose of this study is to improve the aerodynamic performance of wind turbine blades, using the Ball-Spine inverse design method. The inverse design goal is to calculate a geometry corresponds to a given pressure distribution on its boundaries. By calculating the difference between the current and target pressure distributions, geometric boundaries are modified so that the pressure di...

A semi-analytical model for velocity profile at wind turbine wake using blade element momentum

The shape of wake behind a wind turbine is normally assumed to have a hat shape for the models used in wind farm layout optimization purposes; however, it is know from experimental tests and numerical simulations that this is not a real assumption. In reality, the results of actual measurements and detailed numerical simulation show that the velocity in wake region has a S-shape profile. Th...