This work presents an investigation on different methods for the calculation of the angle of
attack and the underlying induced velocity on wind turbine blades using data obtained from …

The present studies deliver the computational investigations of a 10 MW turbine with a
diameter of 205.8 m developed within the framework of the AVATAR (Advanced …

The tip loss is an important phenomenon in wind turbine aerodynamics and has to be
modelled separately in the blade element momentum (BEM) method for predicting the wind …

In today's wind energy research, comparisons of low‐fidelity aerodynamic models with CFD
simulations are common practice. While the approach for loads with respect to the rotor …

Wind turbines often have lower performance and experience higher loading in real
operation compared to the original design performance. The reasons stem from the …

There are two broad kinds of energy sources: renewable and non-renewable. In the
renewable energy sector, significant advancements have been made in wind energy, the …

The actuator-disk method is a cost-effective simulation tool that implicitly represents the rotor
of a turbomachine using a blade-element approach combined with two-dimensional (2D) …

The ability of high-fidelity computational fluid mechanics simulation to quantitatively predict
the influence of ground roughness on the evolution of the wake of a three-bladed horizontal …

The angle of attack (AoA) is the key parameter when extracting the aerodynamic polar from
the rotating blade sections of a wind turbine. However, the determination of AoA is not …

Actuator-disk rotor models are important simulation tools for cost-effective industrial axial fan
system analysis. Actuator-disk fan model performance, however, is constrained by the …