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2010 |
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Conference papers
Chatzopoulos A, Assessing the energy capture capability of a MW scale wind turbine during operation below rated operation. EWEC 2010, Scientific Track, Poster Presentation.
Wylie S and Watson S, Comparison of different turbulence closure schemes used for Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modelling of a wind flow around a forest simulated in a wind tunnel. EWEC 2010, Scientific Track, Poster Presentation.
Kritharas PP and Watson SJ, Improved long term wind speed prognosis using advanced statistical methods, EWEC 2010, Scientific Track, Poster Presentation.
Soler-Bientz R, Watson SJ and Infield DG, Preliminary results of a statistical wind resources analysis in offshore conditions in the Gulf of Mexico, EWEC 2010, Scientific Track, Poster Presentation.
Dutton G, Clarke M and Bonnet P, Modelling of static and fatigue failure in wind turbine blades using a parametric blade model. EWEC2010, Technical Track, Oral Presentation.
Wilkinson M, Hendriks B, Spinato F, Gomez, Bulacio, Roca, Tavner PJ, Feng Y and Long H, Methodology and results of the Reliawind reliability field study, EWEC 2010, Scientific Track, Oral Presentation.
Crabtree C, Feng Y and Tavner PJ, Detecting incipient gearbox failure in wind turbines: a new signal analysis method for on-line condition monitoring, EWEC2010 Scientific Track, Oral Presentation.
Smolders, Long H, Feng Y and Tavner PJ, Reliability analysis and prediction of wind turbine gearboxes. EWEC2010, Scientific Track, Poster Presentation.
Tavner PJ, Gindele, Faulstich, Hahn, Whittle and Greenwood, Study of effects of weather & location on wind turbine failure rates. EWEC2010, Scientific Track, Poster Presentation.
Tavner PJ, Higgins, Arabian, Long H and Feng Y, Use of the FMEA to determine wind turbine availability. EWEC2010, Technical Track, Oral Presentation.
Firth and Long H, A design software tool for conceptual design of wind turbine gearboxes, EWEC2010, Technical Track, Poster Presentation. |
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2009 |
Journal papers
Bai W, Mingham CG, Causon DM and Qian L, (2009), Finite volume simulation of viscous free surface waves using the Cartesian cut cell approach, Int J Num Methods in Fluids. (accepted)
Djurovic S, Williamson S and Renfrew A, (2009) Dynamic model for Doubly-Fed Induction Generators with unbalanced excitation, both with and without winding faults, IET Electric Power Applications, Vol. 3, No 3, pp 171-177.
Dutton, AG, Bonnet, PA, Hogg, P, Lleong, YL, (2009) Novel materials and modelling for large wind turbine blades, Journal of Power and Energy. (accepted)
Guo H, Watson SJ, Tavner P and Xiang J, (2009) Reliability analysis for wind turbines with incomplete failure data collected from after the date of initial installation, Journal of Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Vol. 94, Issue 6, pp 1047-1063. Available online doi:10.1016/j.ress.2008.12.004.
Gray CS and Watson S, (2009) Physics of Failure Approach to Wind Turbine Condition Based Maintenance, Wind Energy, Vol. 12, Issue 7. Published online. Available online doi:10.1002/we.360.
Ingram DM, Troch P, Gao F, Li T, Causon DM and Mingham CG, (2009) Numerical investigations of wave overtopping at coastal structures, Special issue of Coastal Engineering, Vol. 56, Issue 2, pp. 190-202. Available online doi:10.1016/j.coastaleng.2008.03.010.
Spinato F, Tavner PJ, van Bussel, GJW and Koutoulakos E, (2009) Reliability of wind turbine subassemblies, IET Renewable Power Generation, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 1-15. Available online doi:10.1049/iet-rpg:2008.0060.
Yang WX, Tavner P J and Wilkinson MR, (2009) Condition monitoring and fault diagnosis of a wind turbine synchronous generator drive train, IET Renewable Power Generation, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 1-11.
Yang WX and Tavner PJ, (2009) Empirical mode decomposition, an adaptive approach for interpreting shaft vibratory signals of large rotating machinery, Journal of Sound and Vibration, Vol. 321, Issues 3-5, PP. 1144-1170. Available online doi:10.1016/j.jsv.2008.10.012.
Yang WX, Tavner PJ, Crabtree, CJ and Wilkinson M, (2009) Cost-Effective Condition Monitoring for Wind Turbines, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. Vol. 57, No. 1, pp 263-271, doi:10.1109/TIE.2009.2032202.
Conference papers
Bonnet P, Dutton G, Court R, Ridley S, Jones H and Hope P, Towards a more realistic fatigue loading for laboratory testing of wind turbine blades, EWEC2009, Marseille, France, March 2009. (Abstract, Poster)
Crabtree CJ and Tavner PJ, Condition Monitoring of Wind Turbines, 5th PhD Seminar on Wind Energy in Europe, Durham, 30 Sep – 1 Oct 2009.
Court RS, Ridley S, Jones H, Bonnet PA and Dutton AG, Fatigue testing of wind turbine blades with computational verification, 17th International Conference on Composite Materials (ICCM-17), Edinburgh, UK, 27 – 31 July 2009.
Djurovic S, Williamson S, Tavner PJ and Yang WX, Condition monitoring artefacts for detecting winding faults in wind turbine DFIGs, EWEC2009, Marseille, France, March 2009.
Garlick WG, Dixon R and Watson SJ, A Model-based Approach to Wind Turbine Condition Monitoring using SCADA Data, ICSE 2009, Coventry, September 2009.
Kritharas PP and Watson SJ, Long term forecasting of wind speed using historical patterns, EWEC2009, Marseille, France, March 2009. (Presentation)
Leithead WE, Neilson V and Dominguez S, Alleviation of unbalanced rotor loads by single blade controllers, EWEC2009, Marseilles, France, March 2009.
Leithead WE, Neilson V and Dominguez S, A novel approach to structural load control using intelligent actuators, 17th Mediterranean Conf. on Control and Automation, Thessaloniki, Greece, June 2009.
McGovern D, Ilic S, Folkard A, McLelland S and Murphy B, Flow and turbulence around an Offshore Wind Turbine Pile in Tidal Currents using Particle Image Velocimetry, Proceedings Coastal Dynamics ’09, Tokyo, 7 – 11 September 2009.
Pascheke F and Hancock PE, Influence of ABL characteristics on wind turbine wakes: surface roughness and stratification, International Workshop on Physical Modelling of Flow and Dispersion Phenomena (PHYSMOD) 24-26 August, Sint-Genesius-Rode, Belgium, 2009. (Abstract)
Peesapati V Rashid L, Jamshidi P, Cotton I, Brown A and Hogg, P, Resolving performance conflicts between radar absorbing materials, lightning protection and cost-effective structural performance in new wind turbine blade designs, EWEC2009, Marseille, France, March 2009.
Peesapati V and Cotton I, Lightning protection of wind turbines – a comparison of lightning data & IEC 61400 - 24. 1st International Conference on Sustainable Power Generation and Supply (SUPERGEN), Nanjing, China, April 2009.
Peesapati V and Cotton I, Lightning protection of wind turbines – a comparison of real lightning strike data and finite element lightning attachment analysis, 1st International Conference on Sustainable Power Generation and Supply (SUPERGEN), Nanjing, China, April 2009.
Soler-Bientz R, Watson SJ and Infield DG, Study of the offshore wind and its propagation inland of the northern zone of the Yucatan Peninsula, Eastern Mexico, EWEC2009, Marseille, France, March 2009.
Torres E, Djurovic S, Terzija V and Williamson S, Application of Parameter Estimation Methods to the Assessment of DFIG’s currents, - Proc IEEE Int. Conf. PowerTech, Bucharest, Romania, 2009.
Watson SJ, Xiang JP, Yang WX, Tavner PJ and Crabtree CJ, Condition monitoring of a wind turbine doubly-fed induction generator, EWEC2009, Marseille, France, March 2009. (Abstract)
Williamson S and Djurovic S, Origins of Stator Current Spectra in DFIGs with Winding Faults and Excitation Asymmetries, IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conference (IEMDC '09), Miami, Florida USA, 3‐6 May 2009.
Wilkinson M, Harman K, and Tavner P and Hendriks B, DERIVATION OF WIND TURBINE RELIABILITY PROFILES FROM OPERATIONAL DATA, EWEC2009, Marseille, France, March 2009. (Abstract, Poster)
Wylie SJ, Watson SJ and Searight T, Computational Fluid Dynamics Modelling and Validation of Wind flow over a Forest Canopy, EWEC2009, Marseille, France, March 2009. (Abstract)
Wylie SJ, Watson SJ, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Modelling of Wind Flow in and around Forest Canopies, 5th PhD Seminar on Wind Energy in Europe, Durham, 30 Sep – 1 Oct 2009.
Yang WX, Tavner PJ and Crabtree CJ, An intelligent approach to the condition monitoring of large scale wind turbines, EWEC 2009, Marseilles, France, March 2009.
Zaher, A, Cruden A, Booth C, Leithead W, Database Management for High Resolution Condition Monitoring of Wind Turbines, 44th International Universities Power Engineering Conference (UPEC2009), Glasgow, Scotland, 1-4 September 2009.
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2008 |
Books
Tavner PJ, Ran L, Penman J and Sedding, H, Condition Monitoring Of Rotating Electrical Machines, IET, Stevenage, ISBN 978-0-86341-741-2, 2008.
Journal papers
Berketis K, Tzetzis D and Hogg PJ, (2008) The influence of long term water immersion ageing on impact damage behaviour and residual compression strength of glass fibre reinforced polymer (GFRP), Materials & Design, Volume 29, Issue 7, pp. 1300-1310.
Coolen FPA, Spinato F and Venkat D, (2008) On modelling of grouped reliability data for wind turbine, IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, published online on July 11, 2008.
Leithead WE, (2008) Supergen: Wind Energy Technologies, UK Power Magazine.
Tavner PJ, (2008) Review of condition monitoring of rotating electrical machines, IET Electric Power Applications, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 215-247.
Tavner PJ, (2008) Wind power as a clean-energy contributor, Energy Policy, Volume 36, Issue 12, pp. 4397-4400.
Tzetzis D and Hogg PJ, (2008) The influence of surface morphology on the interfacial adhesion and fracture behaviour of vacuum infused CFRP repairs, Polymer Composites Volume 29, no 1, pp: 92-108.
Tzetzis D and Hogg PJ, (2008) Experimental and finite element analysis on the performance of vacuum-assisted resin infused single scarf repairs, Materials & Design, Volume 29, Issue 2, pp. 436-449.
Wiggelinkhuizen E, Verbruggen T, Braam H, Rademakers L, Xiang J and Watson S, (2008) Assessment of condition monitoring techniques for offshore wind farms, Transactions of ASME: Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Volume 130, Issue 3, 031004-9.
Zhang J, Dyśko A, O’Reilly J, and Leithead WE, (2008) Modelling and performance of fixed-speed induction generators in power system oscillation stability studies, Electric Power Systems Research, No 78, pp 1416-1424.
Conference papers
Bampalas N and Graham JMR, Aerodynamic Rotor Model for Unsteady Flow and Wake Impact, Wind Energy Colloquium, University of Oldenburg, Germany, 30th June - 2nd July 2008.
Bonnet PA and Dutton AG, Finite element modelling of blade thermoelastic stress analysis results, European Wind Energy Conference (EWEC2008), Brussels, 31 March - 3 April 2008.
Djurovic S and Williamson S, A coupled-circuit model for a DFIG operating under unbalanced conditions, Proc. of the 2008 International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM 2008), Vilamoura, Portugal, September 2008.
Djurovic S and Williamson S, Losses and pulsating torques in DFIGs with unbalanced stator and rotor excitation, Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. ICSET, pp 328-333, Nov 2008.
Dutton AG, Bonnet PA, Hogg P and Kun L, Novel materials and modelling for large wind turbine blades, UKERC Sustainable Energy UK: Meeting the Science and Engineering Challenge, St Anne's College, Oxford, 13-14 May 2008.
Hogg P, Manufacturing challenges for wind turbines, Advanced Manufacturing for Composite Technologies Conference, Manchester, UK, Thursday 11 December 2008. (Presentation)
Leithead WE and Dominguez D, The role of the control system for multi-MW wind turbines, UKERC Sustainable Energy UK: Meeting the Science and Engineering Challenge, St Anne's College, Oxford, UK, 13-14 May 2008.
Mathiopoulos A and Watson SJ, A methodology for producing a self-tuned wind turbine drive train damper, European Wind Energy Conference (EWEC2008), Brussels, Belgium, 31 March - 3 April 2008. Awarded Poster Prize.
Pascheke F and Hancock, PH, Wake development and interactions within an array of large turbines, European Wind Energy Conference (EWEC2008), Brussels, 31 March - 3 April 2008. (Poster)
Pascheke F, Hancock PE and Robins A, Development and interaction off wakes of large wind turbines in on- and off-shore wind conditions, UKERC Sustainable Energy UK: Meeting the Science and Engineering Challenge, St Anne's College, Oxford, 13-14 May 2008. (Presentation)
Rashid, L and Brown, AK, Impact of wind farms on marine navigational radar, UKERC Sustainable Energy UK: Meeting the Science and Engineering Challenge, St Anne's College, Oxford, UK, 13-14 May 2008.
Swiszcz G, Cruden A, Booth C and Leithead WE, A data acquisition platform for the development of a wind turbine condition monitoring system, Int. Conf. on Condition Monitoring and Diagnosis, Beijing, China, 21-24 April 2008.
Tavner PJ, Spinato F, van Bussel GJW and Koutoulakos E, Reliability of different wind turbine concepts with relevance to offshore application, European Wind Energy Conference (EWEC2008), Brussels, Belgium, 31 March - 3 April 2008.
Tavner PJ and Spinato F, Reliability of wind turbines, UKERC Sustainable Energy UK: Meeting the Science and Engineering Challenge, St Anne's College, Oxford, UK, 13-14 May 2008.
Watson SJ, Wind turbines: an engineering reliability perspective, Workshop on Renewable Energy and Control in Power Electronics, Liverpool, 27-28 May 2008. (Presentation)
Watson SJ and Xiang J, Condition Monitoring of Wind Turbine Drive Trains, UKERC Sustainable Energy UK: Meeting the Science and Engineering Challenge, St Anne's College, Oxford, UK, 13-14 May 2008. (Presentation)
Wylie SJ, Watson SJ and Infield DG, Modelling the output of a flat-roof mounted wind turbine with an edge mounted lip, European Wind Energy Conference (EWEC2008), Brussels, Belgium, 31 March - 3 April 2008.
Xiang J and Watson SJ, Practical Condition Monitoring Techniques for Offshore Wind Turbines, European Wind Energy Conference (EWEC2008), Brussels, Belgium, 31 March - 3 April 2008.
Yang WX, Tavner PJ and Wilkinson M, Condition monitoring and fault diagnosis of a wind turbine with a synchronous generator using wavelet transforms, Proc. 4th IET Int. Conf. on Power Electrical Machines and Drives, York, April 2008.
Yang WX, Tavner PJ and Wilkinson M, Wind turbine condition monitoring and fault diagnosis using both mechanical and electrical signatures, Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, Xi'an, China, 2-5 July 2008.
Yang WX, Tavner PJ, Crabtree CJ and Wilkinson M, Research on a simple, cheap but globally effective condition monitoring technique for wind turbines, Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Electrical Machines, Vilamoura, Portugal, 2008.
Yang WX and Tavner PJ, Wind turbine condition monitoring and fault diagnosis using wavelet transforms, 4th PhD Seminar on Wind Energy in Europe, Magdeburg, Germany, 1-2 Oct 2008.
Yang, WX, Jiang JS, Tavner PJ and Crabtree CJ, Monitoring wind turbine condition by the approach of empirical mode decomposition, International Conference of Electrical Machines and Systems (ICEMS 2008), Wuhan, China 17-20 Oct 2008.
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2007 |
Books
Leithead WE, (2007) Chapter 5 Wind Energy, Energy… beyond oil, Eds: Fraser Armstrong and Katerine Blundell, ISBN-10: 0199209960, Oxford, PP 71-83.
Journal papers
Berketis K and Hogg PJ, (2007) Impact response of composites after long-term water immersion, Journal of Material Science, Vol 42, No 16, pp 6642-6650.
Gao F, Ingram DM, Causon DM and Mingham CG (2007), The development of a Cartesian Cut Cell method for incompressible viscous flows, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 54(9): 1033-1053.
Leithead WE, (2007) Wind energy, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A (Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A), Vol. 365, No. 1853, pp. 957-970.
Leithead WE and Dominguez S, (2007) Active regulation of multi-MW wind turbines: an overview, Power System Technology, Vol. 31, No. 20, pp. 24-34.
Tavner PJ, Xiang J and Spinato F, (2007) Reliability Analysis for Wind Turbines, Wind Energy, Vol. 10, pp. 1-18. TOP most-cited article in Wind Energy.
Watson SJ, Infield DG, Barton JP and Wylie SJ, (2007) Modelling of the performance of a building-mounted ducted wind turbine, Journal of Physics: Conference Series 75 pp. 1-10.
Conference papers
Bonnet PA and Dutton AG, Parametric Modelling Of Large Wind Turbine Blades, presented at Abaqus UK Regional User Meeting, November 2007.
Dominguez S and Leithead WE, Control design toolbox for large-scale PRVS wind turbines, Proceedings of the 2007 EWEA European Wind Energy Conference (EWEC2007), Milan. 7-10 May 2007.
Gao F, Ingram DM, Causon DM and Mingham CG, Numerical modelling of wave interaction with porous structures. New trends in fluid mechanics research, Proceeding of the Fifth International Conference on Fluid Mechanics, August, 2007, Shanghai, China, Tsinghua University Press Springer. pp 514-517, ISBN 978-7-89486-552-6.
Leithead WE and Dominguez S, Active regulation of multi-MW wind turbines: an overview, Supergen-China Workshop on Clean Power, Beijing, China, October 2007. (Journal paper is available in Power System Technology)
Pascheke F and Hancock PE, Wake development and interactions within an array of large wind turbines, The International Workshop on Physical Modelling of Flow and Dispersion Phenomena (PHYSMOD 2007), University of Orleans, France, 29-31 August 2007. (Abstract, Poster)
Qian L, Causon DM and Mingham CG, Development of a 3D free surface capturing code for coastal engineering flow problems. New trends in fluid mechanics research, Proceeding of the Fifth International Conference on Fluid Mechanics, 15-19 August 2007, Shanghai, China, Tsinghua University Press, Springer. pp 328-331, ISBN 978-7-89486-552-6.
Rashid L and Brown AK, RCS and radar propagation near offshore wind farms, IEEE Antennas Propagation Symposium, Hawaii, June 2007.
Rashid L and Brown AK, Impact modelling of wind farms on marine navigational radar, IET Radar2007, Edinburgh, Oct 2007. ISSN:0537-9989, ISBN: 978-0-86341-848-8.
Spinato F, Tavner P and van Bussel G, Reliability-Growth Analysis of Wind Turbines from Fleet Field Data, presented at AR2TS (Advances in Risk and Reliability Technology Symposium) Conference, Loughborough, April 2007.
Wiggelinkhuizen E, Verbruggen T, Xiang J, Watson SJ, Giebel G, Norton E, Catalin M, Juhl A, Becker E and Scheffler D, CONMOW: condition monitoring for offshore wind farms, Proceedings of the 2007 EWEA European Wind Energy Conference (EWEC2007), Milan, Italy, 7-10 May 2007.
Wilkinson, MR, Spinato, F and Tavner, PJ Condition Monitoring of Generators & Other Subassemblies in Wind Turbine Drive Trains, 6th IEEE International Symposium on Diagnostics for Electric Machines, Power Electronics and Drives (SDEMPED 2007), Cracow, Poland, 6-8 Sept 2007. |
2006 |
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Journal papers
Polinder H, van der Pijl FFA, de Vilder GJ and Tavner PJ, (2006) Comparison of Direct-Drive and Geared Generator Concepts for Wind Turbines, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ENERGY CONVERSION, VOL. 21, NO. 3, pp. 725-733.
Tavner PJ, Edwards C, Brinkman A and Spinato, F, (2006) Influence of Wind Speed on Wind Turbine Reliability, Wind Engineering, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 55-72.
Conference papers
Dominguez S and Leithead WE, Size related performance limitations on wind turbine control performance, Proc. Control 2006, Glasgow, 2006.
Hogg PJ, Ren G, Peace S and Marsh, P, The advantages of composite materials in new design concepts for wind turbines, CPA 2006, Haydock, 27th April 2006.
Leithead WE and Dominguez S, Coordinated control design for wind turbine control systems, EWEC2006, Athens, Greece, 27th February – 2nd March 2006. (Presentation)
Tavner PJ, van Bussel GJW and Spinato F, Machine and Converter Reliabilities in Wind Turbines, 3rd International IEE Conference, Power Electronics Machines and Drives, Dublin, 2006.
Watson SJ, Developments in wind power and marine renewable energy technologies, Society of Operational Engineers Annual Conference 2006, Birmingham, 7th June 2006.
Watson SJ and Xiang, J, Real-time Condition Monitoring of Offshore Wind Turbines, 295, European Wind Energy Conference & Exhibition, Greece, February 2006, pp 647-654.
Wilkinson MR, Spinato F, Knowles M and Tavner PJ, Towards the zero maintenance wind turbine, 41st Universities Power Engineering Conference, Newcastle, UK, 6-8 September, 2006, pp. 74-78.
Wilkinson MR and Tavner PJ, Condition monitoring of wind turbine drive trains, Proc. of the 17th International Conference on Electrical Machines, Chania, Crete Island, Greece, 2006. |
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