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Wind Energy Engineering: A Handbook for Onshore and Offshore Wind Turbines, Second Edition continues to be the most advanced, up-to-date and research-focused text on all aspects of wind energy engineering.
Preface
Introduction
1. Why wind energy
2. History of harnessing wind power
3. Wind power fundamentals
4. Estimation of wind energy potential and prediction of wind power
5. Global potential for wind-generated electricity
6. Achieving carbon neutrality: the future of wind energy development in China
7. Vertical wind speed profiles in atmospheric boundary layer flows
8. Wind turbine technologies
9. Small-scale wind turbines
10. Civil engineering aspects of a wind farm and wind turbine structures
11. Aerodynamics and the design of horizontal axis wind turbine
12. Civil engineering challenges associated with design of offshore wind turbines with special reference to China
13. Numerical methods for soil-structure interaction analysis of offshore wind turbine foundations
14. Reliability of wind turbines
15. Practical method to estimate foundation stiffness for design of offshore wind turbines
16. Physical modeling of offshore wind turbine model for prediction of prototype response
17. Seismic design and analysis of offshore wind turbines
18. Seismic hazards associated with offshore wind farms
19. Some challenges and opportunities around lifetime performance and durability of wind turbines
20. A review of wind power in grid codes: current state and future challenges
21. Intelligent design and optimization of wind turbines
22. Wind and hybrid power systems: reliability-based assessment
23. Multifidelity simulation tools for modern wind turbines
24. Wind turbine supporting tower structural health monitoring and vibration control
25. Innovative foundation design for offshore wind turbines
26. Gravity-based foundation for offshore wind turbines
27. Greenhouse gas emissions from storing energy from wind turbines
Section E Environmental impacts of wind energy
28. Climate change effects on offshore wind turbines
29. Life cycle assessment: a meta-analysis of cumulative energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions for wind energy technologies
30. Wind turbines and landscape
31. Turbulent-boundary-layer trailing-edge noise reduction technologies including porous materials
32. Global rare earth supply, life cycle assessment, and wind energy
33. Short-term power prediction and downtime classification
Section F Economics of wind energy and certification issues
34. Levelized cost of energy (UK offshore wind power) drivers, challenges, opportunities and practice 2010
35. Certification of new foundations for offshore wind turbines