Aeroacoustic Optimization of Wind Turbine Blades

Last updated on May 30, 2020

This was my master thesis project. It consisted in developing a tool for aeroacoustic optimization of wind turbine blades.

The tool was divided into three parts: geometry parameterization, aerodynamic analysis and acoustic analysis.

The wind turbine aeroacoustic analysis tool was then applied to the optimization of various wind turbine blades using the NSGA-2 genetic algorithm.

Simão Rodrigues
Simão Rodrigues
Aerospace Engineer, PhD

Publications

On Addressing Wind Turbine Noise with After-Market Shape Blade Add-Ons
When stricter noise limits are enforced to legacy wind turbines already deployed, actions need to be taken. In this paper, we present a …
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On Addressing Noise Constraints in the Design of Wind Turbine Blades
Power production from wind energy has been increasing over the past decades, with more areas being used as wind farms and larger wind …
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Design of After-Market Wind Turbine Blade Add-Ons for Noise Reduction
As a result of the continous growth of Wind Turbines (WTs) implementation worldwide, the problem of WT noise has become more relevant …
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Framework for Low-Noise Wind Turbine Blade Design
Power production from wind energy has been increasing over the past decades, with more areas being used as wind farms and larger wind …
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Aeroacoustic Optimization of Wind Turbine Blades
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