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21 Apr 2022
Grand Challenges in the Design, Manufacture, and Operation of Future Wind Turbine Systems
Paul Veers, Carlo Bottasso, Lance Manuel, Jonathan Naughton, Lucy Pao, Joshua Paquette, Amy Robertson, Michael Robinson, Shreyas Ananthan, Athanasios 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. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2022-32,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2022-32, 2022
Preprint under review for WES (discussion: final response, 4 comments) | 4,505 views
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25 Nov 2022
Wind farm flow control: prospects and challenges
Johan Meyers, Carlo Bottasso, Katherine Dykes, Paul Fleming, Pieter Gebraad, Gregor Giebel, Tuhfe Göçmen, and Jan-Willem van Wingerden
Wind Energ. Sci., 7, 2271–2306, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-2271-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-2271-2022, 2022 | 4,504 views
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19 Apr 2022
Floating wind turbines: marine operations challenges and opportunities
Rahul Chitteth Ramachandran, Cian Desmond, Frances Judge, Jorrit-Jan Serraris, and Jimmy Murphy
Wind Energ. Sci., 7, 903–924, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-903-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-903-2022, 2022 | 4,162 views
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28 Nov 2022
Scientific challenges to characterizing the wind resource in the marine atmospheric boundary layer
William J. Shaw, Larry K. Berg, Mithu Debnath, Georgios Deskos, Caroline Draxl, Virendra P. Ghate, Charlotte B. Hasager, Rao Kotamarthi, Jeffrey D. Mirocha, Paytsar Muradyan, William J. Pringle, David D. Turner, and James M. Wilczak
Wind Energ. Sci., 7, 2307–2334, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-2307-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-2307-2022, 2022 | 3,596 views
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15 Dec 2022
Grand Challenges: wind energy research needs for a global energy transition
Paul Veers, Katherine Dykes, Sukanta Basu, Alessandro Bianchini, Andrew Clifton, Peter Green, Hannele Holttinen, Lena Kitzing, Branko Kosovic, Julie K. Lundquist, Johan Meyers, Mark O'Malley, William J. Shaw, and Bethany Straw
Wind Energ. Sci., 7, 2491–2496, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-2491-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-2491-2022, 2022 | 3,322 views
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12 Oct 2022
Current status and grand challenges for small wind turbine technology
Alessandro Bianchini, Galih Bangga, Ian Baring-Gould, Alessandro Croce, José Ignacio Cruz, Rick Damiani, Gareth Erfort, Carlos Simao Ferreira, David Infield, Christian Navid Nayeri, George Pechlivanoglou, Mark Runacres, Gerard Schepers, Brent Summerville, David Wood, and Alice Orrell
Wind Energ. Sci., 7, 2003–2037, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-2003-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-2003-2022, 2022 | 3,168 views
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24 Mar 2023
Addressing deep array effects and impacts to wake steering with the cumulative-curl wake model
Christopher J. Bay, Paul Fleming, Bart Doekemeijer, Jennifer King, Matt Churchfield, and Rafael Mudafort
Wind Energ. Sci., 8, 401–419, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-401-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-401-2023, 2023 | 2,463 views
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28 Apr 2022
Grand Challenges in the Digitalisation of Wind Energy
Andrew Clifton, Sarah Barber, Andrew Bray, Peter Enevoldsen, Jason Fields, Anna Maria Sempreviva, Lindy Williams, Julian Quick, Mike Purdue, Philip Totaro, and Yu Ding
Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2022-29,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2022-29, 2022
Revised manuscript accepted for WES (discussion: final response, 3 comments) | 2,012 views
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20 Jun 2022
Offshore wind farm cluster wakes as observed by long-range-scanning wind lidar measurements and mesoscale modeling
Beatriz Cañadillas, Maximilian Beckenbauer, Juan J. Trujillo, Martin Dörenkämper, Richard Foreman, Thomas Neumann, and Astrid Lampert
Wind Energ. Sci., 7, 1241–1262, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-1241-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-1241-2022, 2022 | 1,829 views
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08 Sep 2022
FarmConners wind farm flow control benchmark – Part 1: Blind test results
Tuhfe Göçmen, Filippo Campagnolo, Thomas Duc, Irene Eguinoa, Søren Juhl Andersen, Vlaho Petrović, Lejla Imširović, Robert Braunbehrens, Jaime Liew, Mads Baungaard, Maarten Paul van der Laan, Guowei Qian, Maria Aparicio-Sanchez, Rubén González-Lope, Vinit V. Dighe, Marcus Becker, Maarten J. van den Broek, Jan-Willem van Wingerden, Adam Stock, Matthew Cole, Renzo Ruisi, Ervin Bossanyi, Niklas Requate, Simon Strnad, Jonas Schmidt, Lukas Vollmer, Ishaan Sood, and Johan Meyers
Wind Energ. Sci., 7, 1791–1825, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-1791-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-1791-2022, 2022 | 1,809 views
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04 Apr 2022
Artificial hard-substrate colonisation in the offshore Hywind Scotland Pilot Park
Rikard Karlsson, Malin Tivefälth, Iris Duranović, Svante Martinsson, Ane Kjølhamar, and Kari Mette Murvoll
Wind Energ. Sci., 7, 801–814, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-801-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-801-2022, 2022 | 1,778 views
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18 Jul 2022
CFD-based curved tip shape design for wind turbine blades
Mads H. Aa. Madsen, Frederik Zahle, Sergio González Horcas, Thanasis K. Barlas, and Niels N. Sørensen
Wind Energ. Sci., 7, 1471–1501, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-1471-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-1471-2022, 2022 | 1,767 views
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24 May 2022
Comparing and validating intra-farm and farm-to-farm wakes across different mesoscale and high-resolution wake models
Jana Fischereit, Kurt Schaldemose Hansen, Xiaoli Guo Larsén, Maarten Paul van der Laan, Pierre-Elouan Réthoré, and Juan Pablo Murcia Leon
Wind Energ. Sci., 7, 1069–1091, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-1069-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-1069-2022, 2022 | 1,708 views
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26 Oct 2022
Predictive and stochastic reduced-order modeling of wind turbine wake dynamics
Søren Juhl Andersen and Juan Pablo Murcia Leon
Wind Energ. Sci., 7, 2117–2133, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-2117-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-2117-2022, 2022 | 1,662 views
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01 Nov 2022
The revised FLORIDyn model: implementation of heterogeneous flow and the Gaussian wake
Marcus Becker, Bastian Ritter, Bart Doekemeijer, Daan van der Hoek, Ulrich Konigorski, Dries Allaerts, and Jan-Willem van Wingerden
Wind Energ. Sci., 7, 2163–2179, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-2163-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-2163-2022, 2022 | 1,652 views
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08 Nov 2022
Research challenges and needs for the deployment of wind energy in hilly and mountainous regions
Andrew Clifton, Sarah Barber, Alexander Stökl, Helmut Frank, and Timo Karlsson
Wind Energ. Sci., 7, 2231–2254, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-2231-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-2231-2022, 2022 | 1,618 views
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02 Dec 2022
Current and future wind energy resources in the North Sea according to CMIP6
Andrea N. Hahmann, Oscar García-Santiago, and Alfredo Peña
Wind Energ. Sci., 7, 2373–2391, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-2373-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-2373-2022, 2022 | 1,615 views
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14 Apr 2022
Evaluation of the global-blockage effect on power performance through simulations and measurements
Alessandro Sebastiani, Alfredo Peña, Niels Troldborg, and Alexander Meyer Forsting
Wind Energ. Sci., 7, 875–886, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-875-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-875-2022, 2022 | 1,591 views
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13 Jul 2022
High-resolution offshore wind resource assessment at turbine hub height with Sentinel-1 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data and machine learning
Louis de Montera, Henrick Berger, Romain Husson, Pascal Appelghem, Laurent Guerlou, and Mauricio Fragoso
Wind Energ. Sci., 7, 1441–1453, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-1441-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-1441-2022, 2022 | 1,580 views
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14 Apr 2022
Analysing the effectiveness of different offshore maintenance base options for floating wind farms
Nadezda Avanessova, Anthony Gray, Iraklis Lazakis, R. Camilla Thomson, and Giovanni Rinaldi
Wind Energ. Sci., 7, 887–901, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-887-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-887-2022, 2022 | 1,558 views
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28 Jun 2022
Impact of the wind field at the complex-terrain site Perdigão on the surface pressure fluctuations of a wind turbine
Florian Wenz, Judith Langner, Thorsten Lutz, and Ewald Krämer
Wind Energ. Sci., 7, 1321–1340, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-1321-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-1321-2022, 2022 | 1,511 views
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11 May 2022
Effectively using multifidelity optimization for wind turbine design
John Jasa, Pietro Bortolotti, Daniel Zalkind, and Garrett Barter
Wind Energ. Sci., 7, 991–1006, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-991-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-991-2022, 2022 | 1,509 views
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24 May 2022
Large-eddy simulation of airborne wind energy farms
Thomas Haas, Jochem De Schutter, Moritz Diehl, and Johan Meyers
Wind Energ. Sci., 7, 1093–1135, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-1093-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-1093-2022, 2022 | 1,490 views
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03 May 2022
Experimental investigation of mini Gurney flaps in combination with vortex generators for improved wind turbine blade performance
Jörg Alber, Marinos Manolesos, Guido Weinzierl-Dlugosch, Johannes Fischer, Alexander Schönmeier, Christian Navid Nayeri, Christian Oliver Paschereit, Joachim Twele, Jens Fortmann, Pier Francesco Melani, and Alessandro Bianchini
Wind Energ. Sci., 7, 943–965, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-943-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-943-2022, 2022 | 1,455 views
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21 Oct 2022
The sensitivity of the Fitch wind farm parameterization to a three-dimensional planetary boundary layer scheme
Alex Rybchuk, Timothy W. Juliano, Julie K. Lundquist, David Rosencrans, Nicola Bodini, and Mike Optis
Wind Energ. Sci., 7, 2085–2098, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-2085-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-2085-2022, 2022 | 1,451 views
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01 Jun 2022
FLOW Estimation and Rose Superposition (FLOWERS): an integral approach to engineering wake models
Michael J. LoCascio, Christopher J. Bay, Majid Bastankhah, Garrett E. Barter, Paul A. Fleming, and Luis A. Martínez-Tossas
Wind Energ. Sci., 7, 1137–1151, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-1137-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-1137-2022, 2022 | 1,449 views
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04 Aug 2022
Parameter analysis of a multi-element airfoil for application to airborne wind energy
Gianluca De Fezza and Sarah Barber
Wind Energ. Sci., 7, 1627–1640, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-1627-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-1627-2022, 2022 | 1,447 views
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21 Jun 2022
Design, steady performance and wake characterization of a scaled wind turbine with pitch, torque and yaw actuation
Emmanouil M. Nanos, Carlo L. Bottasso, Filippo Campagnolo, Franz Mühle, Stefano Letizia, G. Valerio Iungo, and Mario A. Rotea
Wind Energ. Sci., 7, 1263–1287, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-1263-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-1263-2022, 2022 | 1,428 views
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08 Jul 2022
Development of a wireless, non-intrusive, MEMS-based pressure and acoustic measurement system for large-scale operating wind turbine blades
Sarah Barber, Julien Deparday, Yuriy Marykovskiy, Eleni Chatzi, Imad Abdallah, Gregory Duthé, Michele Magno, Tommaso Polonelli, Raphael Fischer, and Hanna Müller
Wind Energ. Sci., 7, 1383–1398, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-1383-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-1383-2022, 2022 | 1,423 views
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06 Apr 2022
Turbulence statistics from three different nacelle lidars
Wei Fu, Alfredo Peña, and Jakob Mann
Wind Energ. Sci., 7, 831–848, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-831-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-831-2022, 2022 | 1,423 views
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10 May 2022
Investigation into boundary layer transition using wall-resolved large-eddy simulations and modeled inflow turbulence
Brandon Arthur Lobo, Alois Peter Schaffarczyk, and Michael Breuer
Wind Energ. Sci., 7, 967–990, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-967-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-967-2022, 2022 | 1,420 views
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08 Apr 2022
Development of an automatic thresholding method for wake meandering studies and its application to the data set from scanning wind lidar
Maria Krutova, Mostafa Bakhoday-Paskyabi, Joachim Reuder, and Finn Gunnar Nielsen
Wind Energ. Sci., 7, 849–873, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-849-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-849-2022, 2022 | 1,408 views
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09 Aug 2022
Computational-fluid-dynamics analysis of a Darrieus vertical-axis wind turbine installation on the rooftop of buildings under turbulent-inflow conditions
Pradip Zamre and Thorsten Lutz
Wind Energ. Sci., 7, 1661–1677, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-1661-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-1661-2022, 2022 | 1,393 views
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17 May 2022
Wind turbine main-bearing lubrication – Part 1: An introductory review of elastohydrodynamic lubrication theory
Edward Hart, Elisha de Mello, and Rob Dwyer-Joyce
Wind Energ. Sci., 7, 1021–1042, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-1021-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-1021-2022, 2022 | 1,376 views
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05 Jul 2022
How should the lift and drag forces be calculated from 2-D airfoil data for dihedral or coned wind turbine blades?
Ang Li, Mac Gaunaa, Georg Raimund Pirrung, Alexander Meyer Forsting, and Sergio González Horcas
Wind Energ. Sci., 7, 1341–1365, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-1341-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-1341-2022, 2022 | 1,372 views
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04 Aug 2022
Vertical wake deflection for floating wind turbines by differential ballast control
Emmanouil M. Nanos, Carlo L. Bottasso, Simone Tamaro, Dimitris I. Manolas, and Vasilis A. Riziotis
Wind Energ. Sci., 7, 1641–1660, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-1641-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-1641-2022, 2022 | 1,367 views
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22 Apr 2022
A framework for simultaneous design of wind turbines and cable layout in offshore wind
Juan-Andrés Pérez-Rúa and Nicolaos Antonio Cutululis
Wind Energ. Sci., 7, 925–942, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-925-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-925-2022, 2022 | 1,356 views
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20 Jul 2022
Computational fluid dynamics studies on wind turbine interactions with the turbulent local flow field influenced by complex topography and thermal stratification
Patrick Letzgus, Giorgia Guma, and Thorsten Lutz
Wind Energ. Sci., 7, 1551–1573, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-1551-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-1551-2022, 2022 | 1,345 views
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11 Aug 2022
Turbulence in a coastal environment: the case of Vindeby
Rieska Mawarni Putri, Etienne Cheynet, Charlotte Obhrai, and Jasna Bogunovic Jakobsen
Wind Energ. Sci., 7, 1693–1710, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-1693-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-1693-2022, 2022 | 1,345 views
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22 Aug 2022
Flutter behavior of highly flexible blades for two- and three-bladed wind turbines
Mayank Chetan, Shulong Yao, and D. Todd Griffith
Wind Energ. Sci., 7, 1731–1751, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-1731-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-1731-2022, 2022 | 1,315 views
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08 Jun 2022
Impacts of wind field characteristics and non-steady deterministic wind events on time-varying main-bearing loads
Edward Hart, Adam Stock, George Elderfield, Robin Elliott, James Brasseur, Jonathan Keller, Yi Guo, and Wooyong Song
Wind Energ. Sci., 7, 1209–1226, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-1209-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-1209-2022, 2022 | 1,315 views
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31 Mar 2022
Efficient Bayesian calibration of aerodynamic wind turbine models using surrogate modeling
Benjamin Sanderse, Vinit V. Dighe, Koen Boorsma, and Gerard Schepers
Wind Energ. Sci., 7, 759–781, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-759-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-759-2022, 2022 | 1,315 views
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28 Oct 2022
Model tests of a 10 MW semi-submersible floating wind turbine under waves and wind using hybrid method to integrate the rotor thrust and moments
Felipe Vittori, José Azcona, Irene Eguinoa, Oscar Pires, Alberto Rodríguez, Álex Morató, Carlos Garrido, and Cian Desmond
Wind Energ. Sci., 7, 2149–2161, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-2149-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-2149-2022, 2022 | 1,311 views
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12 Sep 2022
Scaling effects of fixed-wing ground-generation airborne wind energy systems
Markus Sommerfeld, Martin Dörenkämper, Jochem De Schutter, and Curran Crawford
Wind Energ. Sci., 7, 1847–1868, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-1847-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-1847-2022, 2022 | 1,295 views
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23 Aug 2022
OC6 Project Phase III: Validation of the Aerodynamic Loading on a Wind Turbine Rotor Undergoing Large Motion Caused by a Floating Support Structure
Roger Bergua, Amy Robertson, Jason Jonkman, Emmanuel Branlard, Alessandro Fontanella, Marco Belloli, Paolo Schito, Alberto Zasso, Giacomo Persico, Andrea Sanvito, Ervin Amet, Cédric Brun, Guillén Campaña-Alonso, Raquel Martín-San-Román, Ruolin Cai, Jifeng Cai, Quan Qian, Wen Maoshi, Alec Beardsell, Georg Pirrung, Néstor Ramos-García, Wei Shi, Jie Fu, Rémi Corniglion, Anaïs Lovera, Josean Galván, Tor Anders Nygaard, Carlos Renan dos Santos, Philippe Gilbert, Pierre-Antoine Joulin, Frédéric Blondel, Eelco Frickel, Peng Chen, Zhiqiang Hu, Ronan Boisard, Kutay Yilmazlar, Alessandro Croce, Violette Harnois, Lijun Zhang, Ye Li, Ander Aristondo, Iñigo Mendikoa Alonso, Simone Mancini, Koen Boorsma, Feike Savenije, David Marten, Rodrigo Soto-Valle, Christian Schulz, Stefan Netzband, Alessandro Bianchini, Francesco Papi, Stefano Cioni, Pau Trubat, Daniel Alarcon, Climent Molins, Marion Cormier, Konstantin Brüker, Thorsten Lutz, Qing Xiao, Zhongsheng Deng, Florence Haudin, and Akhilesh Goveas
Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2022-74,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2022-74, 2022
Revised manuscript accepted for WES (discussion: closed, 4 comments) | 1,283 views
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15 Dec 2022
Comparison of large eddy simulations against measurements from the Lillgrund offshore wind farm
Ishaan Sood, Elliot Simon, Athanasios Vitsas, Bart Blockmans, Gunner C. Larsen, and Johan Meyers
Wind Energ. Sci., 7, 2469–2489, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-2469-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-2469-2022, 2022 | 1,273 views
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02 Jun 2022
Damage equivalent load synthesis and stochastic extrapolation for fatigue life validation
Anand Natarajan
Wind Energ. Sci., 7, 1171–1181, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-1171-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-1171-2022, 2022 | 1,268 views
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01 Dec 2022
A symbolic framework to obtain mid-fidelity models of flexible multibody systems with application to horizontal-axis wind turbines
Emmanuel Branlard and Jens Geisler
Wind Energ. Sci., 7, 2351–2371, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-2351-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-2351-2022, 2022 | 1,254 views
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11 Aug 2022
Public acceptance of wind energy – concepts, empirical drivers and some open questions
Michael Ruddat
Wind Energ. Sci., 7, 1679–1691, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-1679-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-1679-2022, 2022 | 1,253 views
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02 Jun 2022
Evaluation of obstacle modelling approaches for resource assessment and small wind turbine siting: case study in the northern Netherlands
Caleb Phillips, Lindsay M. Sheridan, Patrick Conry, Dimitrios K. Fytanidis, Dmitry Duplyakin, Sagi Zisman, Nicolas Duboc, Matt Nelson, Rao Kotamarthi, Rod Linn, Marc Broersma, Timo Spijkerboer, and Heidi Tinnesand
Wind Energ. Sci., 7, 1153–1169, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-1153-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-1153-2022, 2022 | 1,248 views
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