Tonio Sant

TL;DR: In this article, the reliability of aerodynamic models embedded in the design software currently used in industry is indispensable to guarantee reductions in the cost of wind energy and further cost reductions in turbine technology are necessary for wind energy to reach its full potential in terms of the large-scale supply of electricity.

TL;DR: In this paper, the available technologies to convert solar energy into electrical and thermal energy are investigated with a particular attention to their market availability for small-scale applications, and different ways to provide heating, cooling and sanitary hot water from solar source are analyzed and compared from an efficiency, economic and environmental perspective.

TL;DR: In this article, an open source free-wake vortex code was used to determine whether experimentally-observed effects of the wave motions on floating rotor aerodynamics could be reproduced numerically by the lifting line method.