Browsing by Subject "Wind turbines -- Aerodynamics"
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Aerodynamic verification and optimization of a model of an offshore floating wind turbine
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya / Politecnico di Torino, 2013)
Bachelor thesis
Restricted access - author's decisionOffshore wind power technologies are still developing. Floating systems represent the future of wind energy as they provide sites with better wind characteristics. Nowadays they are under intensive study and experimentation, ... -
Avaluació in situ i càlcul de càrregues en un aerogenerador
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2012-06)
Master thesis (pre-Bologna period)
Restricted access - author's decisionAquest volum conté la memòria del projecte de fi de carrera "Avaluació in situ i càlcul de càrregues en un aerogenerador‟. Es presenta la implementació d'un software que serveix per realitzar un estudi de vent, però al ... -
CFD study of the influence of mountain and valley shapes on wind propagation
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2019-07-11)
Bachelor thesis
Open AccessIn the following work an aerodynamic study is explained, which consists in seeing the influence of the earth’s surface on the wind propagation. Specifically in plains, uphill and downhill slopes, basic geometries ... -
Decommissioning of offshore wind turbines
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2019-01-25)
Bachelor thesis
Open AccessDecommissioning is a key process in the offshore wind industry because all substructures, bottom fixed or floating, have to be removed and completely dismantled at the end of their service life. There is still no experience ... -
Decommissioning of offshore wind turbines
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2019-02-19)
Bachelor thesis
Open AccessDecommissioning is a key process in the offshore wind industry because all substructures, bottom fixed or floating, have to be removed and completely dismantled at the end of their service life. There is still no experience ... -
Development of reduced order models for wind farm control
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya / Technische Universität München, 2017-04)
Master thesis
Open AccessBackground: Wind energy is one of the leading renewable energies that take part in the current transition from the usage of traditional fossil-fuel energies to green ones. The potential and development of wind power is ... -
Estudi aerodinàmic d’un aerogenerador d’eix horitzontal
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2019-05-21)
Bachelor thesis
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Estudio aerodinámico y optimización de perfiles flatback aplicado a aerogeneradores
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2014-06)
Bachelor thesis
Open AccessCollect available literature on current flat back airfoils.Study conventional airfoils used in current wind turbines blade design and characterise its aerodynamic properties.Obtain flat back airfoils from this conventional ... -
Estudio del desarrollo aerodinámico de un aerogenerador ‘wind-lens’
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2016-06)
Master thesis
Restricted access - author's decisionEl objeto de este proyecto es adquirir conocimientos sobre el diseño aerodinámico de las palas de un aerogenerador con ‘wind lens’. Usando la teoría de BEM (‘Blade Element Momentum’) modificada por eluso de‘wind lens’.También ... -
Optimización de la generación de un parque eólico considerando efectos de estela
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya / Universitat de Barcelona, 2013-06)
Master thesis
Open AccessEl objetivo de este trabajo es verificar la hipótesis de que operar los diferentes aerogeneradores de un parque a velocidades específicas distintas de la óptima tiene como resultado un aumento en la velocidad del viento ... -
Rotating Blade Design : Study for the numerical resolution of conservation equations of mass, momentum and energy, oriented to be used at different engineering problems such as Wind and Wave energy processes
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2015-06-09)
Bachelor thesis
Restricted access - author's decisionAnàlisi previ d'antecedents i state of the art. Desenvolupament de les eines de simulació numèrica necessàries. Obtenció de resultats i propostes d'optimització en el disseny. Conclusions. -
Study of the effect of the AFC on the wind turbine blade aerodynamics
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2018-01)
Master thesis
Restricted access - author's decisionThe main objective of this Mater Thesis is to study which is the effect of using Active Flow Control techniques on the aerodynamics of a wind turbine aerofoil. The study is performed over a NACA 4418 aerofoil, a common ... -
Study of the influence of airfoils geometry in the yield of wind turbines using computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya / Beihang University of Aeronautics, 2011)
Master thesis (pre-Bologna period)
Restricted access - author's decisionThis thesis aims to analyze the importance of airfoils geometry in the yield of wind turbines using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) approach. It pretends to interpret the most important aerodynamic design features of ... -
Study on vertical-axis wind turbines using streamtube and dynamic stall models
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2014-06)
Bachelor thesis
Open Access
Covenantee: Illinois Institute of TechnologyThe expected exhaustion of fossil sources of energy requires the improvement of other renewable sources, such as wind turbines. Vertical-axis wind turbines present very attractive performance characteristics but extremely ... -
Vibration-Response-Only Structural Health Monitoring for Offshore Wind Turbine Jacket Foundations via Convolutional Neural Networks
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2020-06)
Article
Open AccessThis work deals with structural health monitoring for jacket-type foundations of offshore wind turbines. In particular, a vibration-response-only methodology is proposed based on accelerometer data and deep convolutional ...
