Abstract: Due to their potential to use light, flexible blades, downwind turbines are well suited for offshore floating platforms, for which there is a need to substantially lower the cost of windgenerated electricity. However, ...

Abstract: The benefits and drawbacks of a multimegawatt downwind compared to upwind wind turbine are assessed using unsteady, threedimensional (3D) computational fluid dynamics. For the same operating conditions, the downwind turbine ...

Abstract: Full Reynoldsaveraged Navier–Stokes (RANS) simulations of the flow in the near wake of a threebladed horizontalaxis wind turbine are presented. The simulations, which are based on the model experiments in controlled ...