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Sebastien Gueydon, Frances Judge, Eoin Lyden, Michael O?Shea, Florent Thiebaut, Marc Le Boulluec, Julien Caverne, Jérémy Ohana, Benjamin Bouscasse, Shinwoong Kim, Sandy Day, Saishuai Dai and Jimmy Murphy
This paper introduces metrics developed for analysing irregular wave test results from the round robin testing campaign carried out on a floating wind turbine as part of the EU H2020 MaRINET2 project. A 1/60th scale model of a 10 MW floating platform was...
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Sebastien Gueydon, Frances M. Judge, Michael O?Shea, Eoin Lyden, Marc Le Boulluec, Julien Caverne, Jérémy Ohana, Shinwoong Kim, Benjamin Bouscasse, Florent Thiebaut, Sandy Day, Saishuai Dai and Jimmy Murphy
This paper documents the round robin testing campaign carried out on a floating wind turbine as part of the EU H2020 MaRINET2 project. A 1/60th scale model of a 10 MW floating platform was tested in wave basins in four different locations around Europe. ...
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Muwanika Jdiobe, Kurt Rouser, Ryan Paul and Austin Rouser
This paper presents an approach to validate a wind tunnel propeller dynamometer applicable to Group 2 unmanned aircraft. The intended use of such a dynamometer is to characterize propellers over a relevant range of sizes and operating conditions, under w...
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Dominique Paul Bergmann, Jan Denzel, Ole Pfeifle, Stefan Notter, Walter Fichter and Andreas Strohmayer
The high-power density and good scaling properties of electric motors enable new propulsion arrangements and aircraft configurations. This results in distributed propulsion systems allowing to make use of aerodynamic interaction effects between individua...
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Yangwei Wang, Jiahuan Lin, Huawei Duan and Jun Zhang
In the natural marine environment, offshore floating wind turbines (OFWTs) inevitably experience yawed inflow conditions, which will make their aerodynamics more complicated than those experiencing uniform inflow conditions and difficult to understand. I...
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Yao Lei, Yazhou Li and Jie Wang
In this paper, the aerodynamic performance of an orthogonal octorotor UAV considering horizontal wind disturbances is investigated with numerical simulations and experiments. To obtian the effect of horizontal wind on the flight efficiency of the orthogo...
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Danilo Ciliberti and Fabrizio Nicolosi
This paper describes the design, numerical analyses, and wind tunnel tests of the scaled model of a propeller serving as a propulsive element for the experimental tests of an advanced regional turboprop aircraft with engines installed on the horizontal t...
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Yuanxing Zhao, Xuan Gong, Jianwen Wang, Liru Zhang and Yefei Bai
The dynamic yaw significantly affects the aerodynamic load distribution of wind turbines, and the aerodynamic load is one of the main influencing factors of wind turbine structural stress variation. Taking the NACA4415 horizontal axis wind turbine design...
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Yao Lei, Jie Wang and Yazhou Li
This paper investigates the aerodynamic performance of an overlapping octocopter with the effect of horizontal wind ranging from 0 to 4 m/s using both low-speed wind tunnel tests and numerical simulations. The hovering efficiency and the potential contro...
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Veronica Vigna and Massimo Figari
The harvesting of wind energy and its transformation into a thrust force for ship propulsion are gaining in popularity due to the expected benefit in fuel consumption and emission reductions. To exploit these benefits, a proper matching between the conve...
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Lorenzo Niccolai, Marco Bassetto, Alessandro A. Quarta and Giovanni Mengali
Propellantless propulsive systems such as Electric Solar Wind Sails are capable of accelerating a deep-space probe, only requiring a small amount of propellant for attitude and spin-rate control. However, the generated thrust magnitude is usually small w...
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Yao Lei, Wenjie Yang and Hengda Wang
Wind disturbance posed difficulties for the stability of the micro air vehicles (MAVs) with attitude variation. In this paper, the aerodynamic performance of a MAV with six coaxial rotor pairs considering the horizontal wind is investigated by both exper...
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Yao Lei, Yiqiang Ye and Zhiyong Chen
The coaxial Tri-rotor micro air vehicle (MAV) is composed of three coaxial rotors where the aerodynamic characteristics of is complicated in flight especially when the wind effect is introduced. In this paper, the hovering performance of a full-scale coa...
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Xin Cai, Yazhou Wang, Bofeng Xu and Junheng Feng
As a result of the large-scale trend of offshore wind turbines, wind shear and turbulent wind conditions cause significant fluctuations of the wind turbine?s torque and thrust, which significantly affect the service life of the wind turbine gearbox and t...
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Siliang Du, Yi Zha and Qijun Zhao
The concept of the Fan Wing, a novel aircraft vector-force-integrated device that combines a power unit with a fixed wing to generate distributed lift and thrust by creating a low-pressure vortex on the wing?s surface, was studied. To investigate the uni...
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Jiahuan Lin, Huawei Duan, Baoming Xu, Yangwei Wang and Jun Zhang
The Froude-scaled offshore floating wind turbine model is inevitably affected by the Reynolds number effect, making the model unable to correctly reproduce the thrust performance of the reference wind turbine (RWT). To solve this problem, an Xfoil-Airfoi...
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A. S. M. Alauddin Al Azad, Kazi Samsunnahar Mita, Md. Wasif Zaman, Marin Akter, Tansir Zaman Asik, Anisul Haque, Mohammad Asad Hussain and Md. Munsur Rahman
Impact of storm surge largely varies depending on the tidal phase during the landfall of a tropical cyclone. This study investigates comparative variance in inundation condition and thrust force for an identical cyclone during low tide and high tide by a...
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Diane Scicluna, Claire De Marco Muscat-Fenech, Tonio Sant, Giuliano Vernengo and Tahsin Tezdogan
There exist vast areas of offshore wind resources with water depths greater than 100 m that require floating structures. This paper provides a detailed analysis on the hydrostatic stability characteristics of a novel floating wind turbine concept. The pr...
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Mohamad Hmedi, Emre Uzunoglu, Antonio Medina-Manuel, Jordi Mas-Soler, Felipe Vittori, Oscar Pires, José Azcona, Antonio Souto-Iglesias and C. Guedes Soares
This work evaluates the experimental test results regarding the operational performance of a free-float capable tension leg platform with a 10 MW wind turbine. It covers the platform dynamics in the selected installation area: Ribadeo, Spain. The model a...
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Andris Slavinskis, Mario F. Palos, Janis Dalbins, Pekka Janhunen, Martin Tajmar, Nickolay Ivchenko, Agnes Rohtsalu, Aldo Micciani, Nicola Orsini, Karl Mattias Moor, Sergei Kuzmin, Marcis Bleiders, Marcis Donerblics, Ikechukwu Ofodile, Johan Kütt, Tõnis Eenmäe, Viljo Allik, Jaan Viru, Pätris Halapuu, Katriin Kristmann, Janis Sate, Endija Briede, Marius Anger, Katarina Aas, Gustavs Plonis, Hans Teras, Kristo Allaje, Andris Vaivads, Lorenzo Niccolai, Marco Bassetto, Giovanni Mengali, Petri Toivanen, Iaroslav Iakubivskyi, Mihkel Pajusalu and Antti TammaddShow full author listremoveHide full author list
The electric solar wind sail, or E-sail, is a propellantless interplanetary propulsion system concept. By deflecting solar wind particles off their original course, it can generate a propulsive effect with nothing more than an electric charge. The high-v...
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