Horizontal axis wind turbines (HAWTs) experience three-dimensional rotational and unsteady aerodynamic phenomena at the rotor blades sections. These highly unsteady three-dimensional effects have a dramatic impact on the aerodynamic load distributions on the blades, in particular, when they occur at …

Dynamic stall phenomena bring risk for negative damping and instability in wind turbine blades. It is crucial to model these phenomena accurately to reduce inaccuracies in predicting design driving (fatigue) loads. Inaccuracies in current dynamic stall models may be due to the facts that they are not …

Provincie, kennisinstellingen en bedrijfsleven steken handen ineen en bieden een offshore wind leergang aan.De offshore wind sector biedt enorme innovatieve kansen en levert veel directe werkgelegenheid aan onze regio. De beschikbaarheid van goed personeel is daarvoor noodzakelijk maar dit blijkt een …

Lector Gerard Schepers heeft drie belangrijke doelen geformuleerd voor zijn lectoraat Windenergie. Hij wil de kosten van windenergie verlagen, de sociale acceptatie van windenergie vergroten en toekomstige professionals opleiden. Deze professionals dragen vervolgens bij aan de eerste twee doelen. Het …

At the Lunchcolloquim of the TU in Delft Dr. Schepers talked about the International Small Wind Turbine Contest (ISWTC) and the Energy transition centre (Entrance) in Groningen.

In this second guest-lecture at the TU in Delft the point of focus was the technical aspects of wind turbines and extracting energy from wind.

In this guest-lecture several aspects of wind energy were discussed, in particular the present situation in the Netherlands. Additionally upcoming challenges and future scenarios were included.

In this guest-lecture several aspects of wind energy were discussed, in particular the present situation in the Netherlands. Additionally the social-economic side of wind energy and technical design were part of the lecture.

In this report, the details of an investigation into the e ect of the low induction wind turbines on the Levelised Cost of Electricity (LCoE) in a 1GW o shore wind farm is outlined. The 10 MW INNWIND.EU conventional wind turbine and its low induction variant, the 10 MW AVATAR wind turbine, are considered …