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The present investigation provides the first field characterization of the influence of turbulent inflow on the blade structural response of a utility-scale wind turbine (2.5MW), using the unique facility available at the Eolos Wind Energy…
Active flow control is applied to improve the aerodynamic performance of a NACA0018 airfoil operating as a single-bladed vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT). Results computed by wall-resolved large-eddy simulations (LES) highlight the…
Laminar-turbulent transition on a rotating wind turbine blade at a chord Reynolds number of $1 \times 10^5$ and varying angles of attack ($AoA$) is studied with direct numerical simulations and linear stability theory. The rotation effects…
Figuring out the right airfoil is a crucial step in the preliminary stage of any aerial vehicle design, as its shape directly affects the overall aerodynamic characteristics of the aircraft or rotorcraft. Besides being a measure of…
Floating offshore wind turbines are a novel technology, which has reached, with the first wind farm in operation, an advanced state of development. The question of how floating wind systems can be optimized to operate smoothly in harsh wind…
The wake of a horizontal-axis wind turbine was studied at $Re_D=4\times10^6$ with the aim of revealing the effects of the tip speed ratio, $\lambda$, on the wake. Tip speed ratios of $4<\lambda<7$ were investigated and measurements were…
Active wake control (AWC) has emerged as a promising strategy for enhancing wind turbine wake recovery, but accurately modelling its underlying fluid mechanisms remains challenging. This study presents a computationally efficient wake model…
In transonic turbine stages, complex interactions between trailing edge shocks from nozzle guide vanes and rotor blades generate unsteady wall pressure fields, impacting rotor aerodynamic performance and structural integrity. While…
This Minireview summarizes the recent efforts to solve forward and inverse problems as they occur in different branches of fundamental and applied magnetohydrodynamics. As for the forward problem, the main focus is on the numerical…
To address the challenges of bidirectional tidal energy utilization efficiency and operational reliability of tidal turbines under low-flow conditions, this paper presents a novel hollow adaptive variable-pitch tidal energy generator based…
Next-generation models of wind farm flows are increasingly needed to assist the design, operation, and performance diagnostic of modern wind power plants. Accuracy in the descriptions of the wind farm aerodynamics, including the effects of…
Cross-flow, or vertical-axis, turbines are a promising technology for capturing kinetic energy in wind or flowing water and their inherently unsteady fluid mechanics present unique opportunities for control optimization of individual rotors…
Solving the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations (RANS) closed with an eddy viscosity computed through a turbulence model is still the leading approach for Computational Fluid Dynamics simulations. Unfortunately, universal models with…
In this contribution, we focus on the Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) models and their exploitation to build reliable reduced order models to further accelerate predictions for real-time applications and many-query scenarios.…
High-order methods and hybrid turbulence models have independently shown promise as means of decreasing the computational cost of scale-resolving simulations. The objective of this work is to develop the combination of these methods and…
A numerical simulation method of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) coupling with a trim analysis for coaxial rotor systems is described in this paper. The trim analysis is implemented using a rotorcraft flow solver, rFlow3D. Six target…
This paper carries out the mathematical modeling, simulation, and control law design for a quadrotor with variable-pitch propellers. The use of variable-pitch propeller for thrust variation instead of RPM regulation facilitates generation…
Most wind farms consist of horizontal axis wind turbines (HAWTs) due to the high power coefficient (mechanical power output divided by the power of the free-stream air through the turbine cross-sectional area) of an isolated turbine.…
The constrained transport (CT) method reflects the state of the art numerical technique for preserving the divergence-free condition of magnetic field to machine accuracy in multi-dimensional MHD simulations performed with Godunov-type, or…
Data-driven Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) turbulence closures are increasing seen as a viable alternative to general-purpose RANS closures, when LES reference data is available -- also in wind-energy. Parsimonious closures with…