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04 Jun 2024
Functional Specifications and Testing Requirements of Grid-Forming Offshore Wind Power Plants
Sulav Ghimire, Gabriel M. G. Guerreiro, Kanakesh Vatta Kkuni, Emerson David Guest, Kim Høj Jensen, Guangya Yang, and Xiongfei Wang
Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-61,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-61, 2024
Revised manuscript under review for WES (discussion: final response, 12 comments)
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02 May 2024
The multiple understandings of wind turbine noise: Reviewing scientific attempts at handling uncertainty
Julia K. Kirkegaard, Tom H. Cronin, Sophie Nyborg, and Daniel N. Frantzen
Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-34,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-34, 2024
Revised manuscript under review for WES (discussion: final response, 11 comments)
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08 Jul 2024
Comparison of different cross-sectional approaches for the structural design and optimization of composite wind turbine blades based on beam models
Edgar Werthen, Daniel Hardt, Claudio Balzani, and Christian Hühne
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 1465–1481, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1465-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1465-2024, 2024
Final revised paper published in WES (10 comments)
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30 Nov 2023
Wake characteristics of a balloon wind turbine and aerodynamic analysis of its balloon using a large eddy simulation and actuator disk model
Aref Ehteshami and Mostafa Varmazyar
Wind Energ. Sci., 8, 1771–1793, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1771-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1771-2023, 2023
Final revised paper published in WES (10 comments)
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16 Jan 2024
Nonlinear vibration characteristics of virtual mass systems for wind turbine blade fatigue testing
Aiguo Zhou, Jinlei Shi, Tao Dong, Yi Ma, and Zhenhui Weng
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 49–64, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-49-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-49-2024, 2024
Final revised paper published in WES (9 comments)
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05 Aug 2024
Performance modelling and scaling of fixed-wing ground-generation airborne wind energy systems
Rishikesh Joshi, Roland Schmehl, and Michiel Kruijff
Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-86,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-86, 2024
Revised manuscript accepted for WES (discussion: closed, 8 comments)
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24 Jul 2024
On the influence of cross-sectional deformations on the aerodynamic performance of wind turbine rotor blades
Julia Sabrina Gebauer, Felix Konstantin Prigge, Dominik Ahrens, Lars Wein, and Claudio Balzani
Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-91,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-91, 2024
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17 May 2024
Periods of constant wind speed: How long do they last in the turbulent atmospheric boundary layer?
Daniela Moreno, Jan Friedrich, Matthias Wächter, Jörg Schwarte, and Joachim Peinke
Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-32,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-32, 2024
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15 Mar 2024
Numerical model for noise reduction of small vertical-axis wind turbines
Wen-Yu Wang and Yuh-Ming Ferng
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 651–664, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-651-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-651-2024, 2024
Final revised paper published in WES (8 comments)
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06 Aug 2024
Measurement of the turning behaviour of tethered membrane wings using automated flight manoeuvres
Christoph Elfert, Dietmar Göhlich, and Roland Schmehl
Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-87,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-87, 2024
Revised manuscript accepted for WES (discussion: closed, 7 comments)
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25 Jul 2024
Semi-Analytical Methodology for Fretting Wear Evaluation of the Pitch Bearing Raceways Under Operative and Non-Operative Periods
David Cubillas, Mireia Olave, Iñigo Llavori, Ibai Ulacia, Jon Larrañaga, Aitor Zurutuza, and Arkaitz Lopez
Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-78,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-78, 2024
Revised manuscript under review for WES (discussion: final response, 7 comments)
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02 Jul 2024
Repair of wind turbine blades: Experience and observations from India – A Review
Refugine Nirmal Ignacy Muthu, Leon Mishnaevsky Jr., Saravanakumar Savadaiyan, Thamodharan Krishnaraj, Anthonyraj Premkumar S, Mohammed Farook S, and Kadhirvel Boopathi
Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-55,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-55, 2024
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28 Jun 2024
Probabilistic lifetime extension assessment using mid-term data: Lillgrund wind farm case study
Shadan Mozafari, Jennifer Rinker, Paul Veers, and Katherine Dykes
Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-68,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-68, 2024
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31 May 2024
Turbine Repositioning Technique for Layout Economics (TRTLE) in Floating OffshoreWind Farms – Humboldt Case Study
Yuksel Rudy Alkarem, Kimberly Huguenard, Richard Kimball, Spencer Hallowell, Amrit Verma, Erin Bachynski-Polić, and Amir Nejad
Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-67,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-67, 2024
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07 May 2024
Meteorological Impacts of Offshore Wind Turbines as Simulated in the Weather Research and Forecasting Model
Daphne Quint, Julie K. Lundquist, Nicola Bodini, and David Rosencrans
Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-53,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-53, 2024
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03 May 2024
Going beyond BEM with BEM: an insight into dynamic inflow effects on floating wind turbines
Francesco Papi, Jason Jonkman, Amy Robertson, and Alessandro Bianchini
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 1069–1088, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1069-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1069-2024, 2024
Final revised paper published in WES (7 comments)
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04 Apr 2024
Challenges in Detecting Wind Turbine Power Loss: The Effects of Blade Erosion, Turbulence and Time Averaging
Tahir H. Malik and Christian Bak
Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-35,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-35, 2024
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14 Mar 2024
Seasonal variability of wake impacts on US mid-Atlantic offshore wind plant power production
David Rosencrans, Julie K. Lundquist, Mike Optis, Alex Rybchuk, Nicola Bodini, and Michael Rossol
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 555–583, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-555-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-555-2024, 2024
Final revised paper published in WES (7 comments)
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08 Jan 2024
Grand challenges of Wind Energy Science – Meeting the needs and services of the power system
Mark O’Malley, Hannele Holttinen, Nicolaos Cutululis, Til Kristian Vrana, Jennifer King, Vahan Gevorgian, Xiongfei Wang, Fatemeh Rajaei-Najafabadi, and Andreas Hadjileonidas
Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2023-179,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2023-179, 2024
Revised manuscript accepted for WES (discussion: closed, 7 comments)
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16 Oct 2024
Low-uncertainty wave tank testing and validation of numerical methods for floating offshore wind turbines
Christian W. Schulz, Stefan Netzband, Philip D. Knipper, and Moustafa Abdel-Maksoud
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 1941–1965, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1941-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1941-2024, 2024
Final revised paper published in WES (6 comments)
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16 Sep 2024
Investigating the interactions between wakes and floating wind turbines using FAST.Farm
Lucas Carmo, Jason Jonkman, and Regis Thedin
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 1827–1847, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1827-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1827-2024, 2024
Final revised paper published in WES (6 comments)
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02 Sep 2024
A machine learning-based approach for active monitoring of blades pitch misalignment in wind turbines
Sabrina Milani, Jessica Leoni, Stefano Cacciola, Alessandro Croce, and Mara Tanelli
Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-100,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-100, 2024
Preprint under review for WES (discussion: open, 6 comments)
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20 Aug 2024
Uncertainty quantification of structural blade parameters for the aeroelastic damping of wind turbines: a code-to-code comparison
Hendrik Verdonck, Oliver Hach, Jelmer D. Polman, Otto Schramm, Claudio Balzani, Sarah Müller, and Johannes Rieke
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 1747–1763, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1747-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1747-2024, 2024
Final revised paper published in WES (6 comments)
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15 Aug 2024
Mesoscale weather systems and associated potential wind power variations in a midlatitude sea strait (Kattegat)
Jérôme Neirynck, Jonas Van de Walle, Ruben Borgers, Sebastiaan Jamaer, Johan Meyers, Ad Stoffelen, and Nicole P. M. van Lipzig
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 1695–1711, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1695-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1695-2024, 2024
Final revised paper published in WES (6 comments)
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14 Jun 2024
Swinging motion of a kite with suspended control unit flying turning manoeuvres
Mark Schelbergen and Roland Schmehl
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 1323–1344, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1323-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1323-2024, 2024
Final revised paper published in WES (6 comments)
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10 Jun 2024
Dynamic Response of Offshore Wind Turbine Structure under Multi-load Coupling Based on DEM and FEM Joint Analysis
Xin Guan, Haoran Xu, Ying Yuan, Shuaijie Wang, Chenhao Zhao, and Hua Yu
Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-66,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-66, 2024
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31 May 2024
Dynamic analysis of the tensegrity structure of a rotary airborne wind energy machine
Gonzalo Sánchez-Arriaga, Álvaro Cerrillo-Vacas, Daniel Unterweger, and Christof Beaupoil
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 1273–1287, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1273-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1273-2024, 2024
Final revised paper published in WES (6 comments)
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30 May 2024
Wind tunnel investigations of an individual pitch control strategy for wind farm power optimization
Franz V. Mühle, Florian M. Heckmeier, Filippo Campagnolo, and Christian Breitsamter
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 1251–1271, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1251-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1251-2024, 2024
Final revised paper published in WES (6 comments)
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24 May 2024
Estimating Long-Term Annual Energy Production of a Large Offshore Wind Farm from Large-Eddy Simulations: Methods and Validation with a 10-Year Simulation
Bernard Postema, Remco Verzijlbergh, Pim van Dorp, Peter Baas, and Harm Jonker
Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-54,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-54, 2024
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22 May 2024
Wind farm layout optimisation including meandering correction and momentum conserving superposition
Daniel Sukhman, Jan Bartl, Thomas H. Hansen, and Gloria Stenfelt
Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-62,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-62, 2024
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08 May 2024
Optimizing offshore wind export cable routing using GIS-based environmental heat maps
Joni Thomas Backstrom, Nicholas Mark Warden, and Colleen Marie Walsh
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 1105–1121, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1105-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1105-2024, 2024
Final revised paper published in WES (6 comments)
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05 Apr 2024
Review of rolling contact fatigue life calculation for oscillating bearings and application-dependent recommendations for use
Oliver Menck and Matthias Stammler
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 777–798, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-777-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-777-2024, 2024
Final revised paper published in WES (6 comments)
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26 Mar 2024
Offshore low-level jet observations and model representation using lidar buoy data off the California coast
Lindsay M. Sheridan, Raghavendra Krishnamurthy, William I. Gustafson Jr., Ye Liu, Brian J. Gaudet, Nicola Bodini, Rob K. Newsom, and Mikhail Pekour
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 741–758, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-741-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-741-2024, 2024
Final revised paper published in WES (6 comments)
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04 Mar 2024
Full-Scale Wind Turbine Performance Assessment: A Study of Aerodynamic Degradation and Operational Influences
Tahir H. Malik and Christian Bak
Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-21,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-21, 2024
Revised manuscript accepted for WES (discussion: closed, 6 comments)
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07 Feb 2024
Speeding up large-wind-farm layout optimization using gradients, parallelization, and a heuristic algorithm for the initial layout
Rafael Valotta Rodrigues, Mads Mølgaard Pedersen, Jens Peter Schøler, Julian Quick, and Pierre-Elouan Réthoré
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 321–341, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-321-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-321-2024, 2024
Final revised paper published in WES (6 comments)
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17 Jan 2024
Grand Challenges in Social Aspects of Wind Energy Development
Lena Kitzing, David Rudolph, Sophie Nyborg, Helena Solman, Tom Cronin, Gundula Hübner, Elizabeth Gill, Katherine Dykes, Suzanne Tegen, and Julia Kirch Kirkegaard
Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2023-174,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2023-174, 2024
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12 Jan 2024
Field-data-based validation of an aero-servo-elastic solver for high-fidelity large-eddy simulations of industrial wind turbines
Etienne Muller, Simone Gremmo, Félix Houtin-Mongrolle, Bastien Duboc, and Pierre Bénard
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 25–48, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-25-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-25-2024, 2024
Final revised paper published in WES (6 comments)
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07 Oct 2024
Impact of a two-dimensional steep hill on wind turbine noise propagation
Jules Colas, Ariane Emmanuelli, Didier Dragna, Philippe Blanc-Benon, Benjamin Cotté, and Richard J. A. M. Stevens
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 1869–1884, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1869-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1869-2024, 2024
Final revised paper published in WES (5 comments)
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23 Aug 2024
One-to-one aeroservoelastic validation of operational loads and performance of a 2.8 MW wind turbine model in OpenFAST
Kenneth Brown, Pietro Bortolotti, Emmanuel Branlard, Mayank Chetan, Scott Dana, Nathaniel deVelder, Paula Doubrawa, Nicholas Hamilton, Hristo Ivanov, Jason Jonkman, Christopher Kelley, and Daniel Zalkind
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 1791–1810, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1791-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1791-2024, 2024
Final revised paper published in WES (5 comments)
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19 Aug 2024
On optimizing the sensor spacing for pressure measurements on wind turbine airfoils
Erik K. Fritz, Christopher L. Kelley, and Kenneth A. Brown
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 1713–1726, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1713-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1713-2024, 2024
Final revised paper published in WES (5 comments)
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15 Aug 2024
Brief communication: A simple axial induction modification to the Weather Research and Forecasting Fitch wind farm parameterization
Lukas Vollmer, Balthazar Arnoldus Maria Sengers, and Martin Dörenkämper
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 1689–1693, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1689-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1689-2024, 2024
Final revised paper published in WES (5 comments)
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02 Aug 2024
Experimental analysis of a horizontal-axis wind turbine with swept blades using PIV data
Erik Fritz, Koen Boorsma, and Carlos Ferreira
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 1617–1629, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1617-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1617-2024, 2024
Final revised paper published in WES (5 comments)
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29 Jul 2024
Dynamic performance of a passively self-adjusting floating wind farm layout to increase the annual energy production
Mohammad Youssef Mahfouz, Ericka Lozon, Matthew Hall, and Po Wen Cheng
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 1595–1615, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1595-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1595-2024, 2024
Final revised paper published in WES (5 comments)
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01 Jul 2024
Performance enhancements on wind turbines using flow controllers: A review
Kiarash Kord, Amir Noori, Nahid Hasanpour, Ali Heydari, Homayoun Askarpour, Mehdi Kashfi, and Shayan Pakravan
Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-63,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-63, 2024
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26 Jun 2024
The rotor as a sensor – observing shear and veer from the operational data of a large wind turbine
Marta Bertelè, Paul J. Meyer, Carlo R. Sucameli, Johannes Fricke, Anna Wegner, Julia Gottschall, and Carlo L. Bottasso
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 1419–1429, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1419-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1419-2024, 2024
Final revised paper published in WES (5 comments)
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15 May 2024
Aerodynamic characterisation of a thrust-scaled IEA 15 MW wind turbine model: experimental insights using PIV data
Erik Fritz, André Ribeiro, Koen Boorsma, and Carlos Ferreira
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 1173–1187, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1173-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1173-2024, 2024
Final revised paper published in WES (5 comments)
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29 Apr 2024
OC6 project Phase IV: validation of numerical models for novel floating offshore wind support structures
Roger Bergua, Will Wiley, Amy Robertson, Jason Jonkman, Cédric Brun, Jean-Philippe Pineau, Quan Qian, Wen Maoshi, Alec Beardsell, Joshua Cutler, Fabio Pierella, Christian Anker Hansen, Wei Shi, Jie Fu, Lehan Hu, Prokopios Vlachogiannis, Christophe Peyrard, Christopher Simon Wright, Dallán Friel, Øyvind Waage Hanssen-Bauer, Carlos Renan dos Santos, Eelco Frickel, Hafizul Islam, Arjen Koop, Zhiqiang Hu, Jihuai Yang, Tristan Quideau, Violette Harnois, Kelsey Shaler, Stefan Netzband, Daniel Alarcón, Pau Trubat, Aengus Connolly, Seán B. Leen, and Oisín Conway
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 1025–1051, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1025-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1025-2024, 2024
Final revised paper published in WES (5 comments)
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10 Apr 2024
Control-oriented modelling of wind direction variability
Scott Dallas, Adam Stock, and Edward Hart
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 841–867, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-841-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-841-2024, 2024
Final revised paper published in WES (5 comments)
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27 Mar 2024
Drop-size-dependent effects in leading-edge rain erosion and their impact for erosion-safe mode operation
Nils Barfknecht and Dominic von Terzi
Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-33,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-33, 2024
Revised manuscript accepted for WES (discussion: closed, 5 comments)
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14 Feb 2024
Structural Design Optimization of Laminated Composites for Vertical Axis Wind Turbine Blades: A Single Objective Approach
Ahmed Ali Geneid, Mostofa R. Atia, Adel Elsabbagh, and Mohammed Hedaya
Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-1,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-1, 2024
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