Interaction between large wind farms and the atmospheric boundary layer

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Interaction between large wind farms and the atmospheric boundary layer

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Towards an improved understanding of wind turbine wakes in complex terrain

Enhancing Wind Farm Performance through Axial Induction and Tilt Control: Insights from Wind Tunnel Experiments

Optimal blade pitch control for enhanced vertical-axis wind turbine performance

The effect of nacelle-to-rotor size on the wake of a miniature wind turbine

Non-contact sensing for anomaly detection in wind turbine blades: A focus-SVDD with complex-valued auto-encoder approach

Mode I fracture of thick adhesively bonded GFRP composite joints for wind turbine rotor blades

Power performance of a model floating wind turbine subjected to cyclic pitch motion: A wind tunnel study

Snowfall deposition in mountainous terrain: a statistical downscaling scheme from high-resolution model data on simulated topographies

Improvements to the dynamic wake meandering model by incorporating the turbulent Schmidt number

An improved analytical framework for flow prediction inside and downstream of wind farms

Power to the People: On the Role of Districts in Decentralized Energy Systems

Influence of incoming turbulent scales on the wind turbine wake: A large-eddy simulation study

Turbulence and Heat exchange in the Near-Surface Boundary Layer over Patchy Snow

Wind turbine wake superposition under pressure gradient

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Data from: Optimal blade pitch control for enhanced vertical-axis wind turbine performance

Modular Multiplatform Compatible Air Measurement System (MoMuCAMS): a new modular platform for boundary layer aerosol and trace gas vertical measurements in extreme environments

An improved statistical wake meandering model

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