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Recent Advances in Wind Energy 2020

A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A3: Wind, Wave and Tidal Energy".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 June 2021) | Viewed by 10761

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Dr. Sebastian Brusca

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Department of Engineering, University of Messina, 1 - 98166 Messina, Italy
Interests: VAWT; HAWT; wind farms; wind turbine wakes; optimal placement; ducted turbines
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Wind energy is one of the most renewable sources that will play a crucial role in future energy scenarios. The deep application of wind power in several energy systems in recent decades suggests that it is becoming a mature technology.

Moreover, wind energy is acting as a very successful industry to decrease the use of conventional energy source dependency, reducing, at the same time, the energy sector’s impact on the environment.

This Special Issue aims at reaching academics, scientists, and industrial actors interested in the wind energy field to contribute with their achievements to the recent advances in wind energy.

This present Special Issue covers a wide range of topics, including:

  • Development of resource assessment techniques—prediction, modelling, atmospheric physics, wind farm planning, siting (including off-shore developments), economics, and environmental issues;
  • Wind rotors and blades—aerodynamics, aero-elastics, aero-servo-elasticity, aero-acoustics, wakes, rotor, and blade design;
  • Wind turbine technologies;
  • Control of wind turbines, diagnostics;
  • Generator concepts, including gearless concepts;
  • Electrical engineering of wind power;
  • Grid interconnection, ride-through operation, protection;
  • Operations and maintenance—reliability, maintainability, condition monitoring, predictive maintenance, and economics;
  • Concept innovations, modeling, systems—design, installation, operation, performance, optimization, and control;
  • Structural and mechanical component modeling and design;
  • Smart-grid and micro-grid related to wind turbine operation.

Dr. Sebastian Brusca
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • Wind turbines
  • VAWT
  • HAWT
  • Power control
  • Power electronics
  • Aerodynamics
  • Smart grids

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Comparison of Wind Lidar Data and Numerical Simulations of the Low-Level Jet at a Grassland Site
by Astrid Ziemann, André Galvez Arboleda and Astrid Lampert
Energies 2020, 13(23), 6264; https://doi.org/10.3390/en13236264 - 27 Nov 2020
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For the increasing importance of the wind energy branch, exact wind climatologies at the operation altitudes are essential. As wind turbines of increasing hub height are erected, the rotors are located at an altitude interval influenced by the phenomenon of low-level jet (LLJ). [...] Read more.
For the increasing importance of the wind energy branch, exact wind climatologies at the operation altitudes are essential. As wind turbines of increasing hub height are erected, the rotors are located at an altitude interval influenced by the phenomenon of low-level jet (LLJ). The main objective of the study is to assess if and how numerical simulations can represent the development especially of nocturnal LLJs in comparison to measurements. In this article, the microscale numerical model HIRVAC2D is used for a range of parameters. The simulated results for properties of the LLJ are compared to lidar data at an altitude range of 40 m to 500 m at the study site Braunschweig in the North German Plain, a grassland location that may be representative for a large area. Similarities and differences of the occurrence, height and maximum wind speed of the nocturnal LLJ are discussed using two different criteria to define a LLJ. The analysis of the lidar data set for the grassland site revealed for the first time increasing height of the LLJ with increasing wind speed during the summer months June to August 2013. The comparison of measurements and simulation data shows that boundary (and inital) conditions have to be adapted in model simulations to provide realistic LLJ properties. It was found that land use and vegetation parameters are important for practical LLJ prognosis, both for wind climatologies and nowcasting. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Wind Energy 2020)
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jBAY Modeling of Vane-Type Vortex Generators and Study on Airfoil Aerodynamic Performance
by Sergio Chillon, Antxon Uriarte-Uriarte, Iñigo Aramendia, Pablo Martínez-Filgueira, Unai Fernandez-Gamiz and Iosu Ibarra-Udaeta
Energies 2020, 13(10), 2423; https://doi.org/10.3390/en13102423 - 12 May 2020
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The increased demand for wind power is related to changes in the sizes of wind turbines and the development of flow control devices, such as vortex generators (VGs). In the present study, an analysis of the vortices generated by a vane-type VG is [...] Read more.
The increased demand for wind power is related to changes in the sizes of wind turbines and the development of flow control devices, such as vortex generators (VGs). In the present study, an analysis of the vortices generated by a vane-type VG is performed. To that end, the aerodynamic performance of a DU97W300 airfoil with and without VG is evaluated. The jBAY source term model was implemented for simulation of a triangular-shaped VG and the resolution of the fully meshed computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model. Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) based simulations were used to calculate the effect of VGs in steady state, and the detached eddy simulation (DES) method was used for angles of attack (AoAs) around the stall situation. All jBAY based numerical simulations were carried out with a Reynolds number of Re = 2 × 106 to analyze the influence of VGs with AoAs between 0 and 20° and were validated versus experimental wind tunnel results. The results show that setting up a VG device on an airfoil benefits its aerodynamic performance and that the use of the jBAY model for simulation is accurate and efficient. Full article
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Technological and Operational Aspects That Limit Small Wind Turbines Performance
by José Luis Torres-Madroñero, Joham Alvarez-Montoya, Daniel Restrepo-Montoya, Jorge Mario Tamayo-Avendaño, César Nieto-Londoño and Julián Sierra-Pérez
Energies 2020, 13(22), 6123; https://doi.org/10.3390/en13226123 - 22 Nov 2020
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Small Wind Turbines (SWTs) are promissory for distributed generation using renewable energy sources; however, their deployment in a broad sense requires to address topics related to their cost-efficiency. This paper aims to survey recent developments about SWTs holistically, focusing on multidisciplinary aspects such [...] Read more.
Small Wind Turbines (SWTs) are promissory for distributed generation using renewable energy sources; however, their deployment in a broad sense requires to address topics related to their cost-efficiency. This paper aims to survey recent developments about SWTs holistically, focusing on multidisciplinary aspects such as wind resource assessment, rotor aerodynamics, rotor manufacturing, control systems, and hybrid micro-grid integration. Wind resource produces inputs for the rotor’s aerodynamic design that, in turn, defines a blade shape that needs to be achieved by a manufacturing technique while ensuring structural integrity. A control system may account for the rotor’s aerodynamic performance interacting with an ever-varying wind resource. At the end, the concept of integration with other renewable source is justified, according to the inherent variability of wind generation. Several commercially available SWTs are compared to study how some of the previously mentioned aspects impact performance and Cost of Electricity (CoE). Understanding these topics in the whole view may permit to identify both tendencies and unexplored topics to continue expanding SWTs market. Full article
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