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Recent Advances in Fluid–Structure Interaction Simulations of Wind Turbines

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In this chapter the numerical challenges of simulating aerodynamics and fluid–structure interaction (FSI) of wind turbines are summarized, and the recently developed computational methods that address these challenges are presented. Several wind-turbine computations at full scale and with full complexity of the geometry and material composition are presented, which illustrate the accuracy, robustness, and general applicability of the methods developed for this problem class.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the AFOSR Award FA9550-12-1-0005, the AFOSR Award FA9550-12-1-0046, the NSF Award CBET-1306869, and the NSF CAREER Award 1055091. This support is gratefully acknowledged.

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    A. Korobenko, X. Deng, J. Yan & Y. Bazilevs

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Korobenko, A., Deng, X., Yan, J., Bazilevs, Y. (2016). Recent Advances in Fluid–Structure Interaction Simulations of Wind Turbines. In: Bazilevs, Y., Takizawa, K. (eds) Advances in Computational Fluid-Structure Interaction and Flow Simulation. Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40827-9_38

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