wind energy

Over the last years, UGent-MMS has developed the stand-alone BladeMesher software for generating finite element models of large wind turbine blades. The software reads in the material data and airfoil data of the wind turbine blade, and automatically constructs the geometry and finite element mesh for the blade. In a next step, the nodal and element information of the finite element mesh is written out to an input file for a commercial finite element solver (Abaqus in this case).

We've recently published an extensive review of the state-of-the-art in modelling and simulation for wind energy. The paper is open access for a limited time and can be found online at the link below.

Hewitt, S; Margetts L and Revell A, "Building a digital wind farm", Archives in Computational Methods in Engineering, 2017.

Title of the course: New insights in Sports and Building Aerodynamics

The course is offered on the Coursera platform and registration is free of charge. To find out more about it and watch the video, go to http://www.journals.elsevier.com/building-and-environment/news/new-insights-in-sports-and-building-aerodynamics/

Call for Abstracts

Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and University of Wyoming (UW) jointly organising a conference on wind energy. Organisers invites you to submit an abstract for consideration for the International Conference on Future Technologies for Wind Energy on October 7-9, 2013, Laramie, Wyoming, USA. The deadline for submission is July 15, 2013. Abstracts should be no longer than two pages including figures. Full paper submissions should be no longer than 6 pages.

For more details refer the following webpage:

http://www.uwyo.edu/ser/conferences/wind-energy.html

Registration

Early-bird registration will open August 22, 2013.
Early-bird registration: $200.00
Regular registration: $250.00

Important Dates

AnalySwift, LLC, a leading provider of efficient high-fidelity modeling software for aerospace and energy composites and other advanced materials, announced today the release of VABS 3.6. This is the latest version of VABS, which is the tool of choice for efficient and accurate modeling of composite slender structures such as wind turbine blades, helicopter rotor blades, high aspect ratio wings, composite bridges, and other slender structural components.

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