Publications
The effect of wind-wave interaction on the energy harvesting of offshore wind turbines KU Leuven
A future without renewable energy sources has become unrealistic. One of the more promising renewable energy source is wind energy, especially offshore wind energy. However, little is known about the effect of wind, waves and their interaction on the performance of wind turbines. In this PhD a numerical model will be developed that incorporates these effects and that forecasts the optimal location for offshore windfarms. This will be ...
A new roughness length parameterization accounting for wind-wave (mis)alignment KU Leuven
© Author(s) 2019. Two-way feedback occurs between offshore wind and waves. However, the influence of the waves on the wind profile remains understudied, in particular the momentum transfer between the sea surface and the atmosphere. Previous studies showed that for swell waves it is possible to have increasing wind speeds in case of aligned wind-wave directions. However, the opposite is valid for opposed wind-wave directions, where a decrease in ...
RANS closures for non-neutral microscale CFD simulations sustained with inflow conditions acquired from mesoscale simulations KU Leuven
© 2017 Elsevier Inc. This study focuses on bridging the gap between the turbulence modelling methodologies of meterological and engineering codes by proposing a novel methodology to define the closure coefficients of Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes turbulence models consistently with the physics of the atmospheric boundary layer. In this framework, different turbulence closures have been developed and tested on different full-scale test cases ...