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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 | 5,033 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 | 3,591 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 | 3,359 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 | 2,992 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 | 2,847 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 | 2,708 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 | 2,687 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 | 2,681 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 | 2,653 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 | 2,603 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 | 2,555 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 | 2,532 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 | 2,468 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 | 2,296 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 | 2,271 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 | 2,185 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 | 2,178 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 | 2,147 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 | 2,140 views
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12 Mar 2024
A critical review of challenges and opportunities for the design and operation of offshore structures supporting renewable hydrogen production, storage, and transport
Claudio Alexis Rodríguez Castillo, Baran Yeter, Shen Li, Feargal Brennan, and Maurizio Collu
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 533–554, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-533-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-533-2024, 2024 | 2,135 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 | 2,130 views
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24 Jan 2024
Developing a digital twin framework for wind tunnel testing: validation of turbulent inflow and airfoil load applications
Rishabh Mishra, Emmanuel Guilmineau, Ingrid Neunaber, and Caroline Braud
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 235–252, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-235-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-235-2024, 2024 | 2,128 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 | 2,115 views
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04 Mar 2024
Measurement-driven large-eddy simulations of a diurnal cycle during a wake-steering field campaign
Eliot Quon
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 495–518, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-495-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-495-2024, 2024 | 2,076 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 | 2,071 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 | 2,035 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 | 1,999 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 | 1,995 views
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16 Feb 2024
Development and application of a mesh generator intended for unsteady vortex-lattice method simulations of wind turbines and wind farms
Bruno A. Roccia, Luis R. Ceballos, Marcos L. Verstraete, and Cristian G. Gebhardt
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 385–416, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-385-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-385-2024, 2024 | 1,935 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 | 1,897 views
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02 Feb 2024
Optimal position and distribution mode for on-site hydrogen electrolyzers in onshore wind farms for a minimal levelized cost of hydrogen (LCoH)
Thorsten Reichartz, Georg Jacobs, Tom Rathmes, Lucas Blickwedel, and Ralf Schelenz
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 281–295, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-281-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-281-2024, 2024 | 1,851 views
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27 Feb 2024
Aerodynamic model comparison for an X-shaped vertical-axis wind turbine
Adhyanth Giri Ajay, Laurence Morgan, Yan Wu, David Bretos, Aurelio Cascales, Oscar Pires, and Carlos Ferreira
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 453–470, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-453-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-453-2024, 2024 | 1,805 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 | 1,804 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 | 1,799 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 | 1,772 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 | 1,764 views
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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 | 1,730 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 | 1,730 views
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13 Feb 2024
An experimental study on the aerodynamic loads of a floating offshore wind turbine under imposed motions
Federico Taruffi, Felipe Novais, and Axelle Viré
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 343–358, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-343-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-343-2024, 2024 | 1,704 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 | 1,692 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 | 1,685 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 | 1,664 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 | 1,652 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 | 1,641 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 | 1,622 views
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01 Feb 2024
Quantitative comparison of power production and power quality onshore and offshore: a case study from the eastern United States
Rebecca Foody, Jacob Coburn, Jeanie A. Aird, Rebecca J. Barthelmie, and Sara C. Pryor
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 263–280, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-263-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-263-2024, 2024 | 1,606 views
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22 Jan 2024
Active trailing edge flap system fault detection via machine learning
Andrea Gamberini and Imad Abdallah
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 181–201, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-181-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-181-2024, 2024 | 1,566 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 | 1,563 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 | 1,542 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 | 1,541 views
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