Although I try to maintain the site, some links here time to time get broken.
Aerodynamics, Loads & Control
- Report: Aeroelastic analysis and design of a 5MW wind turbine
- One point aerodynamic blade design, fixing Cl in each cross-section
- Structural blade design, I-beam model, calculationg thickness of spar-caps
- PI controller, pitch and generator torque control via propotional and integrated signals
- Aeroelastic analysis, Rainflow counting, Equilavent load calculations with Wohler curves
- Power production, AEP, Rayleigh distribution
CFD & Aerodynamic Loads
- Publication: A new tip correction for actuator line computations
- ALM,LLT, CFD techniques
- Biot-Savart induction and the new technique
- Applications on planar wing & turbine rotor, results
- PhD thesis: Combined pseudo-spectral / actuator line model for wind turbine applications
- Developing the CFD solver, physical models, parallelization & the hardware usage
- Improved actuator line modeling
- Rotor application, results and the parameter study
Aerodynamics
- Publication: A refined tip correction based on decambering
- Aerodynamics with lifting-line model
- Assumptions and model limitations
- The problem, the approach, the decambering technique
- Application and comparisons against BEM and panel methods
- MSc thesis: Modification of airfoil characteristics due to the influence of the free vortices in the wake of a rotor
- Modeling the lifting surface, lifting line / panel methods
- Introducing ‘decambering’ and the ‘decambered camber-line’
- Implementation and validation against BEM
Structural
- Report: Design of Lighweight Composite Structures
- Mechanics of lamina/laminate
- Strenght of laminates
- Composites and empiric buckling and eigen freq. calculations
- FEM application
- Report: Structural Design of a 90m Blade
- Turbine blade as an I-beam
- Detailed analysis with BECAS