The global industrial economy is still predominantly linear, working according to the take-make-waste principle. This has affected the planet to a concerning amount, which is why the European Union signed the Paris Agreement, committing to a 1,5 to 2 degree scenario of global warming. In order to achieve …

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 …

With the effects of climate change linked to the use of fossil fuels, as well as the prospect of their eventual depletion, becoming more noticeable, political establishment and society appear ready to switch towards using renewable energy. Solar power and wind power are considered to be the most significant …

: To have sustainable societies, we need to accelerate the energy transition towards clean energy solutions, however, awareness and understanding of the process is still limited, especially among young people. In addition, the topic has mainly been approached from an engineering angle, ignoring the social …

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 …

This research proposes new structural lay-outs for large wind turbine blades. The lay-outs were found by an optimisation method where the aerodynamics of wind turbine blades was combined with the structural model of the blade, formulated in a corotational framework. The aeroelastic blade loads were calculated …

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.