Publications

A list of relevant publications related to WISDEM is provided here. The publications are ranked in chronological order.

  • 2022
    1. Jasa, John, Bortolotti, Pietro, Zalkind, Daniel, Barter, Garrett. “Effectively using multifidelity optimization for wind turbine design” Wind Energ. Sci., 7, 991–1006, 2022 DOI: 10.5194/wes-7-991-2022

    2. Jasa, John, Glaws, Andrew, Bortolotti, Pietro, Vijayakumar, Ganesh, and Barter, Garrett. 2022 “Wind turbine blade design with airfoil shape control using invertible neural networks” J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 2265 042052 DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/2265/4/042052

    3. Anderson, Benjamin, Bortolotti, Pietro, and Johnson, Nick. 2022. “Development of an open-source segmented blade design tool”. DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/2265/3/032023

    4. Bortolotti, Pietro, Bay, Christopher, Barter, Garrett, Gaertner, Evan, Dykes, Katherine, McWilliam, Michael, Friis-Moller, Mikkel, Molgaard Pedersen, Mads, and Zahle, Frederik. 2022. “System Modeling Frameworks for Wind Turbines and Plants: Review and Requirements Specifications”. United States. DOI: 10.2172/1868328

  • 2021

    #. Bortolotti, Pietro, Johnson, Nick, Abbas, Nikhar J, Anderson, Evan, Camarena, Ernesto, Paquette, Josh. “Land-based wind turbines with flexible rail transportable blades–Part I: Conceptual design and aeroservoelastic performance” Wind Energ. Sci., 6, 1277–1290, 2021 DOI: 10.5194/wes-6-1277-2021 #. Bortolotti, Pietro, Ivanov, Hristo, Johnson, Nick, Barter, Garrett, Veers, Paul, Namura, Nobuo. “Challenges, opportunities, and a research roadmap for downwind wind turbines” Wind Energy 2022;25:354–367. DOI: 10.1002/we.2676

  • 2020

    1. Carron, WS and Bortolotti, P. “Innovative rail transport of a supersized land-based wind turbine blade.” Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 1618. 2020. DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/1618/4/042041

    2. Shields, Matt, and Jake Nunemaker. Process-based balance of system cost modeling for offshore wind power plants in the United States. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 1452. 2020. DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/1452/1/012039

    3. Satkauskas I Gaertner E Bortolotti P Barter G and Graf PA. Wind Turbine Rotor Design Optimization Using Importance Sampling. AIAA 2020-1953, 2020. DOI: 10.2514/6.202-1953

    4. Gaertner, Evan, Jennifer Rinker, Latha Sethuraman, Frederik Zahle, Benjamin Anderson, Garrett Barter, Nikhar Abbas, Fanzhong Meng, Pietro Bortolotti, Witold Skrzypinski, George Scott, Roland Feil, Henrik Bredmose, Katherine Dykes, Matt Shields, Christopher Allen, and Anthony Viselli. 2020. Definition of the IEA 15-Megawatt Offshore Reference Wind. NREL Technical Report NREL/TP-5000-75698. https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy20osti/75698.pdf

    5. Nunemaker, Jake, Matt Shields, Robert Hammond, Patrick Duffy. “ORBIT: Offshore Renewables Balance-of-System and Installation Tool.” NREL/TP-5000-77081, 2020. https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy20osti/77081.pdf

    6. Bortolotti, Pietro, Kristian Dixon, Evan Gaertner, Megan Rotondo, and Garrett Barter. An efficient approach to explore the solution space of a wind turbine rotor design process. Journal of Physics: Conference Series 1618(4). IOP Publishing, 2020. DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/1618/4/042016

    7. Feil, Roland, Nikhar Abbas, Pietro Bortolotti, Nick Johnson, and Ben Mertz. Distributed Aerodynamic Control using Active Trailing-Edge Flaps for Large Wind Turbines. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 1618(4). IOP Publishing, 2020. DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/1618/4/042026

  • 2019

    1. Bortolotti P Berry D Murray R Gaertner E Jenne D Damiani R Barter G and Dykes K. “A Detailed Wind Turbine Blade Cost Model.” NREL Technical Report NREL/TP-5000-73585, 2019. https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy19osti/73585.pdf

    2. Bortolotti, Pietro, Helena Canet Tarres, Katherine Dykes, Karl Merz, Latha Sethuraman, David Verelst, and Frederik Zahle. “IEA Wind Task 37 on systems engineering in wind energy. WP2-Reference Wind Turbines.” NREL Technical Report NREL/TP-5000-73492, 2019. https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy19osti/73492.pdf

    3. Annika Eberle, Owen Roberts, Alicia Key, Parangat Bhaskar, Katherine Dykes. “NREL’s Balance-of-System Cost Model for Land-Based Wind.” NREL Technical Report NREL/TP-6A20-72201, 2019. https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy19osti/72201.pdf

  • 2018

    1. Stanley, Andrew P., Andrew Ning, and Katherine Dykes. “Benefits of Two Turbine Rotor Diameters and Hub Heights in the Same Wind Farm.” In 2018 Wind Energy Symposium, p. 2016. 2018. DOI: 10.2514/6.2018-2016

    2. Dykes, Katherine, Rick Damiani, Owen Roberts, and Eric Lantz. “Analysis of Ideal Towers for Tall Wind Applications”. NREL Technical Report NREL/CP-5000-70642, 2018. https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy18osti/70642.pdf

    3. Sethuraman, Latha, Julian Quick, Katherine Dykes, and Yi Guo. “Exploring Optimization Opportunities in Four-Point Suspension Wind Turbine Drivetrains through Integrated Design Approaches.” In 2018 Wind Energy Symposium, p. 1000. 2018. DOI: 10.2514/6.2018-1000

    4. Hayes, Austin, Latha Sethuraman, Katherine Dykes, and Lee Jay Fingersh. Structural optimization of a direct-drive wind turbine generator inspired by additive manufacturing. Procedia Manufacturing 26 (2018): 740-752. DOI: 10.1016/j.promfg.2018.07.084

  • 2017

    1. Stanley AP Thomas J Ning SA Annoni J Dykes K and Fleming PA. Gradient-Based Optimization of Wind Farms with Different Turbine Heights. AIAA 2017-1619, 2017. DOI: 10.2514/6.2017-1619

    2. Sethuraman L and Dykes K. GeneratorSE: A Sizing Tool for Variable-Speed Wind Turbine Generators. NREL Technical Report NREL/TP-5000-66462, 2017. https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy17osti/66462.pdf

    3. Damiani, Rick, Andrew Ning, Ben Maples, Aaron Smith, and Katherine Dykes. Scenario analysis for techno‐economic model development of US offshore wind support structures. Wind Energy 20, no. 4 (2017): 731-747. DOI: 10.1002/we.2021

  • 2016

    1. Ning SA and Petch D. Integrated design of downwind land‐based wind turbines using analytic gradients. Wind Energy 19(12), 2016. DOI: 10.1002/we.1972

  • 2015

    1. Guo Y Parsons T King R Dykes K and VeersP. An Analytical Formulation for Sizing and Estimating the Dimensions and Weight of Wind Turbine Hub and Drivetrain Components. NREL Technical Report NREL/TP-5000-63008, 2015. https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy15osti/63008.pdf

  • 2014

    1. Ning SA. A simple solution method for the blade element momentum equations with guaranteed convergence. Wind Energy 17(9), 2014. DOI: 10.1002/we.1636

    2. Ning SA and Damiani R. Objectives and Constraints for Wind Turbine Optimization. ASME Wind Energy Symposium, 2013. DOI: 10.2514/6.2013-201

  • 2011

    1. Dykes K and Meadows R. Applications of Systems Engineering to the Research, Design, and Development of Wind Energy Systems. NREL Technical Report NREL/TP-5000-52616, 2011. https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy12osti/52616.pdf