Wind Energy

Proceedings of the Euromech Colloquium 464b "Wind Energy"

Offshore Wind Power Meteorology.- Wave Loads on Wind-Power Plants in Deep and Shallow Water.- Time Domain Comparison of Simulated and Measured Wind Turbine Loads Using Constrained Wind Fields.- Mean Wind and Turbulence in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer Above the Surface Layer.- Wind Speed Profiles above the North Sea.- Fundamental Aspects of Fluid Flow over Complex Terrain for Wind Energy Applications.- Models for Computer Simulation of Wind Flow over Sparsely Forested Regions.- Power Performance via Nacelle Anemometry on Complex Terrain.- Pollutant Dispersion in Flow Around Bluff-Bodies Arrangement.- On the Atmospheric Flow Modelling over Complex Relief.- Comparison of Logarithmic Wind Profiles and Power Law Wind Profiles and their Applicability for Offshore Wind Profiles.- Turbulence Modelling and Numerical Flow Simulation of Turbulent Flows.- Gusts in Intermittent Wind Turbulence and the Dynamics of their Recurrent Times.- Report on the Research Project OWID - Offshore Wind Design Parameter.- Simulation of Turbulence, Gusts and Wakes for Load Calculations.- Short Time Prediction of Wind Speeds from Local Measurements.- Wind Extremes and Scales: Multifractal Insights and Empirical Evidence.- Boundary-Layer Influence on Extreme Events in Stratified Flows over Orography.- The Statistical Distribution of Turbulence Driven Velocity Extremes in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer - Cartwright/Longuest-Higgins Revised.- Superposition Model for Atmospheric Turbulence.- Extreme Events Under Low-Frequency Wind Speed Variability and Wind Energy Generation.- Stochastic Small-Scale Modelling of Turbulent Wind Time Series.- Quantitative Estimation of Drift and Diffusion Functions from Time Series Data.- Scaling Turbulent Atmospheric Stratification: A Turbulence/Wave Wind Model.-Wind Farm Power Fluctuations.- Network Perspective of Wind-Power Production.- Phenomenological Response Theory to Predict Power Output.- Turbulence Correction for Power Curves.- Online Modeling of Wind Farm Power for Performance Surveillance and Optimization.- Uncertainty of Wind Energy Estimation.- Characterisation of the Power Curve for Wind Turbines by Stochastic Modelling.- Handling Systems Driven by Different Noise Sources: Implications for Power Curve Estimations.- Experimental Researches of Characteristics of Windrotor Models with Vertical Axis of Rotation.- Methodical Failure Detection in Grid Connected Wind Parks.- Modelling of the Transition Locations on a 30% thick Airfoil with Surface Roughness.- Helicopter Aerodynamics with Emphasis Placed on Dynamic Stall.- Determination of Angle of Attack (AOA) for Rotating Blades.- Unsteady Characteristics of Flow Around an Airfoil at High Angles of Attack and Low Reynolds Numbers.- Aerodynamic Multi-Criteria Shape Optimization of VAWT Blade Profile by Viscous Approach.- Rotation and Turbulence Effects on a HAWT Blade Airfoil Aerodynamics.- 3D Numerical Simulation and Evaluation of the Air Flow Through Wind Turbine Rotors with Focus on the Hub Area.- Performance of the Risø-B1 Airfoil Family for Wind Turbines.- Aerodynamic Behaviour of a New Type of Slow-Running VAWT.- Numerical Simulation of Dynamic Stall using Spectral/hp Method.- Modeling of the Far Wake behind a Wind Turbine.- Stability of the Tip Vortices in the Far Wake behind a Wind Turbine.- Modelling Turbulence Intensities Inside Wind Farms.- Numerical Computations of Wind Turbine Wakes.- Modelling Wind Turbine Wakes with a Porosity Concept.- Prediction of Wind Turbine Noise Generation and Propagation based on an Acoustic Analogy.- Comparing WAsP and Fluentfor Highly Complex Terrain Wind Prediction.- Fatigue Assessment of Truss Joints Based on Local Approaches.- Advances in Offshore Wind Technology.- Benefits of Fatigue Assessment with Local Concepts.- Extension of Life Time of Welded Fatigue Loaded Structures.- Damage Detection on Structures of Offshore Wind Turbines using Multiparameter Eigenvalues.- Influence of the Type and Size of Wind Turbines on Anti-Icing Thermal Power Requirements for Blades.- High-cycle Fatigue of "Ultra-High Performance Concrete" and "Grouted Joints" for Offshore Wind Energy Turbines.- A Modular Concept for Integrated Modeling of Offshore WEC Applied to Wave-Structure Coupling.- Solutions of Details Regarding Fatigue and the Use of High-Strength Steels for Towers of Offshore Wind Energy Converters.- On the Influence of Low-Level Jets on Energy Production and Loading of Wind Turbines.- Reliability of Wind Turbines.