Wind Turbine Aerodynamics

Document from the year 2011 in the subject Engineering - System Science, , language: English, abstract: A wind turbine is a device that extracts kinetic energy of the wind and converts it into useful energy. The power produced by a wind turbine depends on the interaction between the wind turbine rotor and the wind. Thus, wind turbine aerodynamics is an important field of study for designing a blade and analyzing the aerodynamic performance of the rotor. A number of scientists have derived various methods for aerodynamic analysis of wind turbine rotors. These methods are presented here.

Sandip A. Kale is working as Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering Department, Trinity College of Engineering and Research, Pune affiliated to Savitribai Phule University Pune (Previous Pune University), India from 2010. He is also handling the responsibility of Dean, Research in the institute. He has completed his Ph.D. and Master's Degree from Pune University. He has around 17 years industrial, academic and research experience. He is working as subject chairman for some subjects at University level. He has published more than forty research papers in various conferences and journals. He has filed 11 patents. He has worked as Guest Editor for publishing many special issues and are indexed in Web of Science and ELSEVIER-SCOPUS. He has worked as an Editor for an edited book 'Renewable Energy and Sustainable Development' and 'Renewable Energy Systems' (Both indexed in ELSEVIER SCOPUS) published by Nova Science Publishers, USA. He is an author of a first book published on Multi-rotor Wind Turbine from Germany. He has published total 06 books. His work of publication of two more books from Nova Science Publishers, USA (Solar and Wind Energy Research) and Woodhead Publishing India (a joint venture between Woodhead Publishing UK and Sara Books Pvt. Ltd) (Renewable Energy Research) is in progress. He has worked as Conference Chair for four international conferences and one national conference. He played a key role in organizing one international and one national workshop. He is also working as Topic Organizer for ASME IMECE from 2014 to 2017 (Canada and USA) and working as a committee member for many international conferences outside the India. He is working as Editorial Board member and reviewer for many international journals. His basic research areas are wind and solar energy, renewable energy and composite materials. Now a day he is also working in the field of Internet of Things. He received research and travel grants from funding agencies. He received Eminent Researcher Awards during ICSESD2017 organized at Regent International College, Bangkok, Thailand. Also, the award Outstanding Faculty in Engineering in Mechanical Engineering is declared to him (July 2017). His Innovation Selected in TOP 50 in 2015 DST - Lockheed Martin India Innovation Growth Program and he became the part of 'Technology Commercialization and Entrepreneurship Workshop' in Goa (April 12-17, 2015) under this scheme organized by Stanford Business School, USA.