How can non-windy places make use of wind power for electricity generation? Advanced Wind Turbines provides detailed information that is of great practical importance to wind turbine practitioners from small and congested city-states, where the lack of vast land and high wind speed render the conventional wind turbine less effective. It introduces the non-conventional Darrieus and Savonius wind turbines, as well as their hybrid version, covering basic concepts, computational modelling and recent advances in experimental optimization.

What about those who prefer wind turbines in faraway oceans to take advantage of high wind speed, or who come from countries with a lack of shallow seabed? Floating offshore wind turbines are also discussed, and the dynamics of floating vis-à-vis grounded wind turbines are thoroughly expounded upon to aid practitioners in achieving more accurate performance modelling. This is a work of paramount usefulness for areas which have long wanted to jump on the renewable energy bandwagon, but have thus far been hampered by their natural geographical limitations.

Contents:

• Preface


• About the Authors


• Introduction


• State-of-the-art Technologies for Low Wind Speed Operation


• Feasibility Check on Potential Concepts


• Mathematical Modeling of Adaptive Hybrid Darrieus Turbine


• Computational Study of Adaptive Hybrid Darrieus Turbine


• Experimental Optimization of Adaptive Hybrid Darrieus Turbine


• Overview of Floating Offshore Wind Turbines


• Aerodynamic Analysis of Floating Offshore Wind Turbine


• Numerical Validation of Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Scaled Rotor for Surge Motion


• Remaining Useful Life Prediction


• Concluding Remarks

Readership: Wind turbine engineers and companies working on non-conventional wind turbines, such as Vertical Axis Wind Turbines and Floating Offshore Wind Turbines. Academics, researchers, and postgraduate students in Wind Engineering.

Key Features:

• Discusses unconventional wind turbines, such as the Darrieus and Savonius wind turbines, their hybrid version, and floating offshore wind turbines


• Covers both computational and experimental approaches