Koulatsou, Konstantina; Petrini, Francesco; Vernardos, Stelios; Gantes, Charis J.
(International Balkans Conferance on Challenges of Civil Engineering, 2013-05-23)
A computational method for generating artificial time histories of wind loads on wind
turbine towers is presented, based on wind turbine aerodynamics and a wind field model. First,
the forces acting on the blades parallel ...