[HTML][HTML] Grand challenges in the design, manufacture, and operation of future wind turbine systems

P Veers, CL Bottasso, L Manuel… - Wind Energy …, 2023 - wes.copernicus.org
Wind energy is foundational for achieving 100% renewable electricity production, and
significant innovation is required as the grid expands and accommodates hybrid plant …

A review of sensitivity analysis practices in wind resource assessment

O Tsvetkova, TBMJ Ouarda - Energy Conversion and Management, 2021 - Elsevier
A review of sensitivity analysis in wind resource assessment is presented, offering
classifications by sensitivity analysis output variable (or model), method, application …

[HTML][HTML] A reference open-source controller for fixed and floating offshore wind turbines

NJ Abbas, DS Zalkind, L Pao, A Wright - Wind Energy Science, 2022 - wes.copernicus.org
This paper describes the development of a new reference controller framework for fixed and
floating offshore wind turbines that greatly facilitates controller tuning and represents …

Control co-design of a floating offshore wind turbine

NJ Abbas, J Jasa, DS Zalkind, A Wright, L Pao - Applied Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Several control co-design (CCD) optimizations of floating offshore wind turbines are
presented in this work using the newly introduced Wind Energy with Integrated Servo …

Multidisciplinary design optimization of large wind turbines—Technical, economic, and design challenges

T Ashuri, MB Zaaijer, JRRA Martins, J Zhang - Energy conversion and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Wind energy has experienced a continuous cost reduction in the last decades. A popular
cost reduction technique is to increase the rated power of the wind turbine by making it …

Combined preliminary–detailed design of wind turbines

P Bortolotti, CL Bottasso, A Croce - Wind Energy Science, 2016 - wes.copernicus.org
This paper is concerned with the holistic optimization of wind turbines. A multi-disciplinary
optimization procedure is presented that marries the overall sizing of the machine in terms of …

[HTML][HTML] Optimizing Lidars for wind turbine control applications—Results from the IEA wind task 32 Workshop

E Simley, H Fürst, F Haizmann, D Schlipf - Remote Sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
IEA Wind Task 32 serves as an international platform for the research community and
industry to identify and mitigate barriers to the use of lidars in wind energy applications. The …

A detailed wind turbine blade cost model

P Bortolotti, DS Berry, R Murray, E Gaertner, DS Jenne… - 2019 - osti.gov
This technical report describes a detailed blade cost model for wind turbine blades in the
range of 30 to 100 meters in length. The model estimates the bill of materials, the number of …

Optimization of wind plant layouts using an adjoint approach

RN King, K Dykes, P Graf… - Wind Energy …, 2017 - wes.copernicus.org
Using adjoint optimization and three-dimensional steady-state Reynolds-averaged Navier–
Stokes (RANS) simulations, we present a new gradient-based approach for optimally siting …

[HTML][HTML] Comparing the impact of uncertainties on technical and meteorological parameters in wind power time series modelling in the European Union

F Monforti, I Gonzalez-Aparicio - Applied Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
The adequate modelling of power systems under heavily penetration of Renewable Energy
sources crucially depends on the accurate representation of the spatial and temporal …