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11 Jul 2023
Grand challenges in the design, manufacture, and operation of future wind turbine systems
Paul Veers, Carlo L. Bottasso, Lance Manuel, Jonathan Naughton, Lucy Pao, Joshua Paquette, Amy Robertson, Michael Robinson, Shreyas Ananthan, Thanasis Barlas, Alessandro Bianchini, Henrik Bredmose, Sergio González Horcas, Jonathan Keller, Helge Aagaard Madsen, James Manwell, Patrick Moriarty, Stephen Nolet, and Jennifer Rinker
Wind Energ. Sci., 8, 1071–1131, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1071-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1071-2023, 2023 | 13,351 views
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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 | 3,983 views
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08 Jan 2024
A digital twin solution for floating offshore wind turbines validated using a full-scale prototype
Emmanuel Branlard, Jason Jonkman, Cameron Brown, and Jiatian Zhang
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 1–24, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1-2024, 2024 | 2,952 views
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05 Feb 2024
TOSCA – an open-source, finite-volume, large-eddy simulation (LES) environment for wind farm flows
Sebastiano Stipa, Arjun Ajay, Dries Allaerts, and Joshua Brinkerhoff
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 297–320, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-297-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-297-2024, 2024 | 2,768 views
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18 Jan 2024
Drivers for optimum sizing of wind turbines for offshore wind farms
Mihir Mehta, Michiel Zaaijer, and Dominic von Terzi
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 141–163, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-141-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-141-2024, 2024 | 2,741 views
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24 Jan 2024
The value of wake steering wind farm flow control in US energy markets
Eric Simley, Dev Millstein, Seongeun Jeong, and Paul Fleming
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 219–234, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-219-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-219-2024, 2024 | 2,484 views
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24 Oct 2023
OF2: coupling OpenFAST and OpenFOAM for high-fidelity aero-hydro-servo-elastic FOWT simulations
Guillén Campaña-Alonso, Raquel Martín-San-Román, Beatriz Méndez-López, Pablo Benito-Cia, and José Azcona-Armendáriz
Wind Energ. Sci., 8, 1597–1611, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1597-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1597-2023, 2023 | 2,351 views
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12 Apr 2024
Knowledge engineering for wind energy
Yuriy Marykovskiy, Thomas Clark, Justin Day, Marcus Wiens, Charles Henderson, Julian Quick, Imad Abdallah, Anna Maria Sempreviva, Jean-Paul Calbimonte, Eleni Chatzi, and Sarah Barber
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 883–917, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-883-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-883-2024, 2024 | 2,236 views
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20 Mar 2024
Mesoscale modelling of North Sea wind resources with COSMO-CLM: model evaluation and impact assessment of future wind farm characteristics on cluster-scale wake losses
Ruben Borgers, Marieke Dirksen, Ine L. Wijnant, Andrew Stepek, Ad Stoffelen, Naveed Akhtar, Jérôme Neirynck, Jonas Van de Walle, Johan Meyers, and Nicole P. M. van Lipzig
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 697–719, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-697-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-697-2024, 2024 | 2,206 views
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12 Oct 2023
Revealing inflow and wake conditions of a 6 MW floating turbine
Nikolas Angelou, Jakob Mann, and Camille Dubreuil-Boisclair
Wind Energ. Sci., 8, 1511–1531, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1511-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1511-2023, 2023 | 2,178 views
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14 Mar 2024
Gradient-based wind farm layout optimization with inclusion and exclusion zones
Javier Criado Risco, Rafael Valotta Rodrigues, Mikkel Friis-Møller, Julian Quick, Mads Mølgaard Pedersen, and Pierre-Elouan Réthoré
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 585–600, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-585-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-585-2024, 2024 | 2,170 views
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08 Sep 2023
Extending the dynamic wake meandering model in HAWC2Farm: a comparison with field measurements at the Lillgrund wind farm
Jaime Liew, Tuhfe Göçmen, Alan W. H. Lio, and Gunner Chr. Larsen
Wind Energ. Sci., 8, 1387–1402, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1387-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1387-2023, 2023 | 2,071 views
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10 Nov 2023
On the characteristics of the wake of a wind turbine undergoing large motions caused by a floating structure: an insight based on experiments and multi-fidelity simulations from the OC6 project Phase III
Stefano Cioni, Francesco Papi, Leonardo Pagamonci, Alessandro Bianchini, Néstor Ramos-García, Georg Pirrung, Rémi Corniglion, Anaïs Lovera, Josean Galván, Ronan Boisard, Alessandro Fontanella, Paolo Schito, Alberto Zasso, Marco Belloli, Andrea Sanvito, Giacomo Persico, Lijun Zhang, Ye Li, Yarong Zhou, Simone Mancini, Koen Boorsma, Ricardo Amaral, Axelle Viré, Christian W. Schulz, Stefan Netzband, Rodrigo Soto-Valle, David Marten, Raquel Martín-San-Román, Pau Trubat, Climent Molins, Roger Bergua, Emmanuel Branlard, Jason Jonkman, and Amy Robertson
Wind Energ. Sci., 8, 1659–1691, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1659-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1659-2023, 2023 | 2,069 views
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04 Jul 2023
Investigating the physical mechanisms that modify wind plant blockage in stable boundary layers
Miguel Sanchez Gomez, Julie K. Lundquist, Jeffrey D. Mirocha, and Robert S. Arthur
Wind Energ. Sci., 8, 1049–1069, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1049-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1049-2023, 2023 | 2,055 views
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16 Aug 2023
Lessons learned in coupling atmospheric models across scales for onshore and offshore wind energy
Sue Ellen Haupt, Branko Kosović, Larry K. Berg, Colleen M. Kaul, Matthew Churchfield, Jeffrey Mirocha, Dries Allaerts, Thomas Brummet, Shannon Davis, Amy DeCastro, Susan Dettling, Caroline Draxl, David John Gagne, Patrick Hawbecker, Pankaj Jha, Timothy Juliano, William Lassman, Eliot Quon, Raj K. Rai, Michael Robinson, William Shaw, and Regis Thedin
Wind Energ. Sci., 8, 1251–1275, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1251-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1251-2023, 2023 | 2,050 views
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04 Dec 2023
A method to correct for the effect of blockage and wakes on power performance measurements
Alessandro Sebastiani, James Bleeg, and Alfredo Peña
Wind Energ. Sci., 8, 1795–1808, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1795-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1795-2023, 2023 | 2,022 views
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05 Apr 2024
Sensitivity of fatigue reliability in wind turbines: effects of design turbulence and the Wöhler exponent
Shadan Mozafari, Paul Veers, Jennifer Rinker, and Katherine Dykes
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 799–820, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-799-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-799-2024, 2024 | 2,016 views
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21 Feb 2024
A novel techno-economical layout optimization tool for floating wind farm design
Amalia Ida Hietanen, Thor Heine Snedker, Katherine Dykes, and Ilmas Bayati
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 417–438, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-417-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-417-2024, 2024 | 2,002 views
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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 | 1,995 views
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17 Jul 2023
Impact of wind profiles on ground-generation airborne wind energy system performance
Markus Sommerfeld, Martin Dörenkämper, Jochem De Schutter, and Curran Crawford
Wind Energ. Sci., 8, 1153–1178, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1153-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1153-2023, 2023 | 1,994 views
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13 Jul 2023
Applying a random time mapping to Mann-modeled turbulence for the generation of intermittent wind fields
Khaled Yassin, Arne Helms, Daniela Moreno, Hassan Kassem, Leo Höning, and Laura J. Lukassen
Wind Energ. Sci., 8, 1133–1152, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1133-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1133-2023, 2023 | 1,970 views
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01 Aug 2023
Stochastic gradient descent for wind farm optimization
Julian Quick, Pierre-Elouan Rethore, Mads Mølgaard Pedersen, Rafael Valotta Rodrigues, and Mikkel Friis-Møller
Wind Energ. Sci., 8, 1235–1250, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1235-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1235-2023, 2023 | 1,951 views
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28 Sep 2023
Difference in load predictions obtained with effective turbulence vs. a dynamic wake meandering modeling approach
Paula Doubrawa, Kelsey Shaler, and Jason Jonkman
Wind Energ. Sci., 8, 1475–1493, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1475-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1475-2023, 2023 | 1,928 views
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15 Sep 2023
Sensitivity analysis of wake steering optimisation for wind farm power maximisation
Filippo Gori, Sylvain Laizet, and Andrew Wynn
Wind Energ. Sci., 8, 1425–1451, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1425-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1425-2023, 2023 | 1,927 views
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25 Jul 2023
Offshore wind farm optimisation: a comparison of performance between regular and irregular wind turbine layouts
Maaike Sickler, Bart Ummels, Michiel Zaaijer, Roland Schmehl, and Katherine Dykes
Wind Energ. Sci., 8, 1225–1233, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1225-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1225-2023, 2023 | 1,875 views
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27 Oct 2023
Forced-motion simulations of vortex-induced vibrations of wind turbine blades – a study of sensitivities
Christian Grinderslev, Felix Houtin-Mongrolle, Niels Nørmark Sørensen, Georg Raimund Pirrung, Pim Jacobs, Aqeel Ahmed, and Bastien Duboc
Wind Energ. Sci., 8, 1625–1638, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1625-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1625-2023, 2023 | 1,847 views
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24 Aug 2023
Damping analysis of floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs): a new control strategy reducing the platform vibrations
Matteo Capaldo and Paul Mella
Wind Energ. Sci., 8, 1319–1339, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1319-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1319-2023, 2023 | 1,845 views
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08 May 2024
The multi-scale coupled model: a new framework capturing wind farm–atmosphere interaction and global blockage effects
Sebastiano Stipa, Arjun Ajay, Dries Allaerts, and Joshua Brinkerhoff
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 1123–1152, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1123-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1123-2024, 2024 | 1,817 views
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24 Aug 2023
Assessing lidar-assisted feedforward and multivariable feedback controls for large floating wind turbines
Feng Guo and David Schlipf
Wind Energ. Sci., 8, 1299–1317, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1299-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1299-2023, 2023 | 1,816 views
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24 Oct 2023
Sensitivity analysis of numerical modeling input parameters on floating offshore wind turbine loads
Will Wiley, Jason Jonkman, Amy Robertson, and Kelsey Shaler
Wind Energ. Sci., 8, 1575–1595, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1575-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1575-2023, 2023 | 1,813 views
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07 Sep 2023
Numerical study of the unsteady blade root aerodynamics of a 2 MW wind turbine equipped with vortex generators
Ferdinand Seel, Thorsten Lutz, and Ewald Krämer
Wind Energ. Sci., 8, 1369–1385, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1369-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1369-2023, 2023 | 1,790 views
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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 | 1,760 views
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14 Dec 2023
A new methodology for upscaling semi-submersible platforms for floating offshore wind turbines
Kaylie L. Roach, Matthew A. Lackner, and James F. Manwell
Wind Energ. Sci., 8, 1873–1891, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1873-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1873-2023, 2023 | 1,760 views
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16 Oct 2023
A decision-tree-based measure–correlate–predict approach for peak wind gust estimation from a global reanalysis dataset
Serkan Kartal, Sukanta Basu, and Simon J. Watson
Wind Energ. Sci., 8, 1533–1551, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1533-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1533-2023, 2023 | 1,716 views
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20 Nov 2023
From wind conditions to operational strategy: optimal planning of wind turbine damage progression over its lifetime
Niklas Requate, Tobias Meyer, and René Hofmann
Wind Energ. Sci., 8, 1727–1753, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1727-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1727-2023, 2023 | 1,711 views
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15 Feb 2024
Hybrid-Lambda: a low-specific-rating rotor concept for offshore wind turbines
Daniel Ribnitzky, Frederik Berger, Vlaho Petrović, and Martin Kühn
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 359–383, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-359-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-359-2024, 2024 | 1,657 views
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25 Aug 2023
Enabling control co-design of the next generation of wind power plants
Andrew P. J. Stanley, Christopher J. Bay, and Paul Fleming
Wind Energ. Sci., 8, 1341–1350, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1341-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1341-2023, 2023 | 1,621 views
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04 Apr 2024
HyDesign: a tool for sizing optimization of grid-connected hybrid power plants including wind, solar photovoltaic, and lithium-ion batteries
Juan Pablo Murcia Leon, Hajar Habbou, Mikkel Friis-Møller, Megha Gupta, Rujie Zhu, and Kaushik Das
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 759–776, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-759-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-759-2024, 2024 | 1,615 views
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14 Mar 2024
Quantifying the impact of modeling fidelity on different substructure concepts for floating offshore wind turbines – Part 1: Validation of the hydrodynamic module QBlade-Ocean
Robert Behrens de Luna, Sebastian Perez-Becker, Joseph Saverin, David Marten, Francesco Papi, Marie-Laure Ducasse, Félicien Bonnefoy, Alessandro Bianchini, and Christian-Oliver Paschereit
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 623–649, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-623-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-623-2024, 2024 | 1,609 views
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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 | 1,589 views
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06 Sep 2023
Controller design for model-scale rotors and validation using prescribed motion
Alessandro Fontanella, Elio Daka, Felipe Novais, and Marco Belloli
Wind Energ. Sci., 8, 1351–1368, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1351-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1351-2023, 2023 | 1,588 views
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26 Mar 2024
Dynamic wind farm flow control using free-vortex wake models
Maarten J. van den Broek, Marcus Becker, Benjamin Sanderse, and Jan-Willem van Wingerden
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 721–740, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-721-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-721-2024, 2024 | 1,576 views
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22 Apr 2024
Quantifying the impact of modeling fidelity on different substructure concepts – Part 2: Code-to-code comparison in realistic environmental conditions
Francesco Papi, Giancarlo Troise, Robert Behrens de Luna, Joseph Saverin, Sebastian Perez-Becker, David Marten, Marie-Laure Ducasse, and Alessandro Bianchini
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 981–1004, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-981-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-981-2024, 2024 | 1,544 views
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20 Mar 2024
Wind turbine rotors in surge motion: new insights into unsteady aerodynamics of floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) from experiments and simulations
Christian W. Schulz, Stefan Netzband, Umut Özinan, Po Wen Cheng, and Moustafa Abdel-Maksoud
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 665–695, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-665-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-665-2024, 2024 | 1,540 views
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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 | 1,539 views
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24 Oct 2023
Analysis and multi-objective optimisation of wind turbine torque control strategies
Livia Brandetti, Sebastiaan Paul Mulders, Yichao Liu, Simon Watson, and Jan-Willem van Wingerden
Wind Energ. Sci., 8, 1553–1573, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1553-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1553-2023, 2023 | 1,528 views
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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 | 1,516 views
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17 Aug 2023
Bayesian method for estimating Weibull parameters for wind resource assessment in a tropical region: a comparison between two-parameter and three-parameter Weibull distributions
Mohammad Golam Mostafa Khan and Mohammed Rafiuddin Ahmed
Wind Energ. Sci., 8, 1277–1298, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1277-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1277-2023, 2023 | 1,493 views
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20 Dec 2023
Free-vortex models for wind turbine wakes under yaw misalignment – a validation study on far-wake effects
Maarten J. van den Broek, Delphine De Tavernier, Paul Hulsman, Daan van der Hoek, Benjamin Sanderse, and Jan-Willem van Wingerden
Wind Energ. Sci., 8, 1909–1925, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1909-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1909-2023, 2023 | 1,492 views
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09 Oct 2023
The effect of site-specific wind conditions and individual pitch control on wear of blade bearings
Arne Bartschat, Karsten Behnke, and Matthias Stammler
Wind Energ. Sci., 8, 1495–1510, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1495-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1495-2023, 2023 | 1,487 views
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