This paper presents a systematic review of current literature on the issues of noise and vibration of wind turbines and their impact on human health and wild life. The paper reviews the literature on the issues of noise ...

A number of research and development groups and several renewable project operators have examined combining wind power production with on-site solar power production. Past research has been devoted to small, off-grid ...

The objective of this paper is to extend the xed wake vortex lattice method (VLM), used to evaluate the performance of single-rotor wind turbines (SRWT), for use in analyzing dual-rotor wind turbines (DRWT). VLM models ...

Wind and solar generation forecasts are used by electrical grid operators and utilities to predict the amount of electricity that will be required from non-renewable generation facilities. That is, they are typically ...

This paper describes a methodology to detect on a wind turbine wake impingement by an upstream machine. The detection is based on the use of rotor loads. As rotor load sensors are becoming routinely available on modern ...

Low Level Jets (LLJs) are defined as regions of relatively strong winds in the lower part of the atmosphere. They are a common feature over the Great Plains in the United States. It has been reported that 75 % of LLJs in ...

In the present study, we report the progress made in our efforts to examine the wake flow characteristics behind a commonly-used three-bladed horizontal-axis wind turbine. A series of experiments were performed in a ...

The interactions between rough surfaces and fluid flows play an important role in turbulence simulation. The understanding of roughness elements at the wall (i.e., buildings and terrain features) to aerodynamics flow is ...

In the unsteady flow environment experienced by wind turbine blades, large excursions in local angle of attack and significant three-dimensional flows arise that complicate the prediction of stall onset and unsteady loading. ...