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21 Feb 2025
Glauert's optimum rotor disk revisited – a calculus of variations solution and exact integrals for thrust and bending moment coefficients
Divya Tyagi and Sven Schmitz
Wind Energ. Sci., 10, 451–460, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-451-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-451-2025, 2025 | 38,355 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 | 3,662 views
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29 Oct 2024
Converging profile relationships for offshore wind speed and turbulence intensity
Gus Jeans
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 2001–2015, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-2001-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-2001-2024, 2024 | 3,178 views
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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 | 3,047 views
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19 Aug 2024
Underestimation of strong wind speeds offshore in ERA5: evidence, discussion and correction
Rémi Gandoin and Jorge Garza
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 1727–1745, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1727-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1727-2024, 2024 | 2,925 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 | 2,911 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 | 2,813 views
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02 Jan 2025
Functional specifications and testing requirements for grid-forming offshore wind power plants
Sulav Ghimire, Gabriel Miguel Gomes Guerreiro, Kanakesh Vatta Kkuni, Emerson David Guest, Kim Høj Jensen, Guangya Yang, and Xiongfei Wang
Wind Energ. Sci., 10, 1–15, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-1-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-1-2025, 2025 | 2,750 views
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19 Jun 2024
Operation and maintenance cost comparison between 15 MW direct-drive and medium-speed offshore wind turbines
Orla Donnelly, Fraser Anderson, and James Carroll
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 1345–1362, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1345-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1345-2024, 2024 | 2,547 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 | 2,458 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 | 2,442 views
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12 Apr 2024
Data-driven optimisation of wind farm layout and wake steering with large-eddy simulations
Nikolaos Bempedelis, Filippo Gori, Andrew Wynn, Sylvain Laizet, and Luca Magri
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 869–882, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-869-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-869-2024, 2024 | 2,367 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 | 2,307 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 | 2,288 views
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12 Jul 2024
Hyperparameter tuning framework for calibrating analytical wake models using SCADA data of an offshore wind farm
Diederik van Binsbergen, Pieter-Jan Daems, Timothy Verstraeten, Amir R. Nejad, and Jan Helsen
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 1507–1526, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1507-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1507-2024, 2024 | 2,162 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 | 2,140 views
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06 Nov 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., 9, 2087–2112, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-2087-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-2087-2024, 2024 | 2,122 views
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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 | 1,947 views
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13 May 2024
Tropical cyclone low-level wind speed, shear, and veer: sensitivity to the boundary layer parametrization in the Weather Research and Forecasting model
Sara Müller, Xiaoli Guo Larsén, and David Robert Verelst
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 1153–1171, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1153-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1153-2024, 2024 | 1,937 views
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04 Nov 2024
Data-driven surrogate model for wind turbine damage equivalent load
Rad Haghi and Curran Crawford
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 2039–2062, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-2039-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-2039-2024, 2024 | 1,913 views
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08 Apr 2024
Machine learning methods to improve spatial predictions of coastal wind speed profiles and low-level jets using single-level ERA5 data
Christoffer Hallgren, Jeanie A. Aird, Stefan Ivanell, Heiner Körnich, Ville Vakkari, Rebecca J. Barthelmie, Sara C. Pryor, and Erik Sahlée
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 821–840, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-821-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-821-2024, 2024 | 1,902 views
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18 Apr 2024
Evaluation of wind farm parameterizations in the WRF model under different atmospheric stability conditions with high-resolution wake simulations
Oscar García-Santiago, Andrea N. Hahmann, Jake Badger, and Alfredo Peña
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 963–979, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-963-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-963-2024, 2024 | 1,879 views
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27 Jun 2024
Machine-learning-based estimate of the wind speed over complex terrain using the long short-term memory (LSTM) recurrent neural network
Cássia Maria Leme Beu and Eduardo Landulfo
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 1431–1450, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1431-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1431-2024, 2024 | 1,845 views
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10 Jun 2024
A sensitivity-based estimation method for investigating control co-design relevance
Jenna Iori, Carlo Luigi Bottasso, and Michael Kenneth McWilliam
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 1289–1304, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1289-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1289-2024, 2024 | 1,820 views
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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 | 1,770 views
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10 Jun 2024
An actuator sector model for wind power applications: a parametric study
Mohammad Mehdi Mohammadi, Hugo Olivares-Espinosa, Gonzalo Pablo Navarro Diaz, and Stefan Ivanell
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 1305–1321, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1305-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1305-2024, 2024 | 1,753 views
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17 Apr 2024
The near-wake development of a wind turbine operating in stalled conditions – Part 1: Assessment of numerical models
Pascal Weihing, Marion Cormier, Thorsten Lutz, and Ewald Krämer
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 933–962, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-933-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-933-2024, 2024 | 1,723 views
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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 | 1,703 views
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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 | 1,682 views
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26 Jun 2024
Assessing the impact of waves and platform dynamics on floating wind-turbine energy production
Alessandro Fontanella, Giorgio Colpani, Marco De Pascali, Sara Muggiasca, and Marco Belloli
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 1393–1417, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1393-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1393-2024, 2024 | 1,676 views
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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 | 1,645 views
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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 | 1,622 views
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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 | 1,576 views
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29 Oct 2024
Full-scale wind turbine performance assessment using the turbine performance integral (TPI) method: a study of aerodynamic degradation and operational influences
Tahir H. Malik and Christian Bak
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 2017–2037, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-2017-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-2017-2024, 2024 | 1,572 views
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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 | 1,551 views
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25 Jun 2024
Simulating low-frequency wind fluctuations
Abdul Haseeb Syed and Jakob Mann
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 1381–1391, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1381-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1381-2024, 2024 | 1,528 views
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09 Jul 2024
Synchronised WindScanner field measurements of the induction zone between two closely spaced wind turbines
Anantha Padmanabhan Kidambi Sekar, Paul Hulsman, Marijn Floris van Dooren, and Martin Kühn
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 1483–1505, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1483-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1483-2024, 2024 | 1,516 views
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12 Nov 2024
Dries Allaerts, 1989–2024
Majid Bastankhah, Marcus Becker, Matthew Churchfield, Caroline Draxl, Jay Prakash Goit, Mehtab Khan, Luis A. Martinez Tossas, Johan Meyers, Patrick Moriarty, Wim Munters, Asim Önder, Sara Porchetta, Eliot Quon, Ishaan Sood, Nicole van Lipzig, Jan-Willem van Wingerden, Paul Veers, and Simon Watson
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 2171–2174, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-2171-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-2171-2024, 2024 | 1,511 views
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10 Sep 2024
Aerodynamic effects of leading-edge erosion in wind farm flow modeling
Jens Visbech, Tuhfe Göçmen, Özge Sinem Özçakmak, Alexander Meyer Forsting, Ásta Hannesdóttir, and Pierre-Elouan Réthoré
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 1811–1826, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1811-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1811-2024, 2024 | 1,487 views
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10 Oct 2024
On the robustness of a blade-load-based wind speed estimator to dynamic pitch control strategies
Marion Coquelet, Maxime Lejeune, Laurent Bricteux, Aemilius A. W. van Vondelen, Jan-Willem van Wingerden, and Philippe Chatelain
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 1923–1940, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1923-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1923-2024, 2024 | 1,464 views
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22 Aug 2024
Investigation of blade flexibility effects on the loads and wake of a 15 MW wind turbine using a flexible actuator line method
Francois Trigaux, Philippe Chatelain, and Grégoire Winckelmans
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 1765–1789, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1765-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1765-2024, 2024 | 1,464 views
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29 Apr 2024
Control co-design optimization of floating offshore wind turbines with tuned liquid multi-column dampers
Wei Yu, Sheng Tao Zhou, Frank Lemmer, and Po Wen Cheng
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 1053–1068, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1053-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1053-2024, 2024 | 1,449 views
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24 Oct 2024
A simple steady-state inflow model of the neutral and stable atmospheric boundary layer applied to wind turbine wake simulations
Maarten Paul van der Laan, Mark Kelly, Mads Baungaard, Antariksh Dicholkar, and Emily Louise Hodgson
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 1985–2000, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1985-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1985-2024, 2024 | 1,446 views
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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 | 1,439 views
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02 Jul 2024
Wind farm structural response and wake dynamics for an evolving stable boundary layer: computational and experimental comparisons
Kelsey Shaler, Eliot Quon, Hristo Ivanov, and Jason Jonkman
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 1451–1463, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1451-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1451-2024, 2024 | 1,430 views
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23 Jan 2025
Improving wind and power predictions via four-dimensional data assimilation in the WRF model: case study of storms in February 2022 at Belgian offshore wind farms
Tsvetelina Ivanova, Sara Porchetta, Sophia Buckingham, Gertjan Glabeke, Jeroen van Beeck, and Wim Munters
Wind Energ. Sci., 10, 245–268, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-245-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-245-2025, 2025 | 1,420 views
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20 Jun 2024
Improvements to the dynamic wake meandering model by incorporating the turbulent Schmidt number
Peter Brugger, Corey D. Markfort, and Fernando Porté-Agel
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 1363–1379, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1363-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1363-2024, 2024 | 1,412 views
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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 | 1,409 views
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20 Feb 2025
Turbine- and farm-scale power losses in wind farms: an alternative to wake and farm blockage losses
Andrew Kirby, Takafumi Nishino, Luca Lanzilao, Thomas D. Dunstan, and Johan Meyers
Wind Energ. Sci., 10, 435–450, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-435-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-435-2025, 2025 | 1,401 views
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02 Aug 2024
Impact of swell waves on atmospheric surface turbulence: wave–turbulence decomposition methods
Mostafa Bakhoday Paskyabi
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 1631–1645, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1631-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1631-2024, 2024 | 1,394 views
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