master thesis topics in wind energy

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At the Institute for Wind Energy Systems, students can conduct student projects and/or final theses. This includes interdisciplinary projects, project and seminar theses as well as Bachelor's and Master's Theses. The task descriptions are elaborated in discussion with interested students. We certainly take into account your personal interests and skills.

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Offers for students in their bachelor's.

The Institute for Wind Energy Systems offers the following topics for students in their Bachelor's studies. The proposed tasks can be adapted individually according to the respective type of thesis (student project or Bachelor's Thesis) and the respective volume of work. We are also open for ideas and proposals of the students. Please contact us and we discuss how to proceed.

Introduction and Scope of Work

Principle stress directions vary in time under multiaxial loads. In brittle matrials (e. g. adhesives in wind turbine rotor blades or cast iron in rotor hubs), this results in fatigue damage that is not evenly distributed among material planes, but is concentrated around a single plane, which is called the critical plane.

In fatigue life calculations of such materials, the damage on the critical plane is governing, and not the accumulation of damage on all material planes, as would be the case for ductile materials. The identification of the critical plane is thus of utmost importance. However, that is linked with very high computational cost. In order to reduce the computation times, different optimisation algorithms have to be tested in the context of this Bachelor's Thesis.

Prior knowledge on fatigue life analysis is not necessarily required. Further details are given in the offer (in German only).

Requirements

• Prior experience in Matlab is required.

For uni-axial fatigue analyses, rainflow counting is a standard method for the counting of cycles. It yields reliable results at low computational cost. For multi-axial loads, the traditional rainflow counting schemes do only offer meaningful information on the identified cycles, if the principle stress directions are approximately constant over time. In that case, we speak of proportional loads.

For non-proportional loads, traditional rainflow counting algorithms can yield severe inaccuracies in fatigue life estimations. In this case, multi-axial rainflow count algorithms are required in order to improve the prediction accuracy. In this work, different variants of multi-axial rainflow counting are to be compared in the framework of benchmark examples.

Offers for Students in their Master's

The Institute for Wind Energy Systems offers the following topics for students in their Master's studies. The proposed tasks can be adapted individually according to the respective type of thesis (student project or Master's Thesis) and the respective volume of work. We are also open for ideas and proposals of the students. Please contact us and we discuss how to proceed.

In fatigue life calculations of such materials, the damage on the critical plane is governing, and not the accumulation of damage on all material planes, as would be the case for ductile materials. The identification of the critical plane is thus of utmost importance. However, that is linked with very high computational cost. In order to reduce the computation times, different optimisation algorithms have to be tested in the context of this work.

Buckling is a mechanism of stability failure in thin-walled structures which are exposed to compressive stresses. Buckling is a bifurcation problem, where large displacements perpendicular to the structure plane occur instantaneously. This phenomenon reduces the structural integrity of the respective structures dramatically, hence it is understood as failure. Since the growth in size of rotor blades is an ongoing trend, increasingly large structural parts are loaded by increasing loads. Consequently, the risk of buckling increases as well.

In the framework of this work, selected rotor blades in the multi-MW class have to be analysed with respect to their buckling resistance. For this purpose, 3D finite element analyses have to be carried out, including linear and nonlinear buckling analyses. If the task is conducted as a Master's Thesis, additional subtasks have to be investigated.

Further details are given in the offer.

• Ideal candidates have some basic experience in finite element application.

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The Chair of Wind Energy Technology proposes an ongoing stream of research subjects relating to wind energy which can be addressed in the context of

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A range of proposed topics for such theses is provided below. If you are interested in any of the proposed study topics, please get in touch with the person stated on the respective slide under contact via email or phone. The specific task will then be concretized in consultation with the student. Download topic overview

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You have an interesting research topic of your own that relates to the field of wind energy engineering, which you would like to investigate in the context of a theses? If so, please feel free to contact any member of staff at the Endowed Chair of Wind Energy Technology. We’re always open to ideas and proposals from students.

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On the Brightspace organization  Wind Energy - proposed master thesis projects  you can find all our thesis projects we are currently offering to students.You are of course also welcome to bring to us your suggestions for a project. In that case, please contact the staff member working in that subject area. Usually a master project is related to an ongoing research of the Wind Energy Research Group. Students who are registered in the Aerodynamics & Wind Energy MSc track, profile Aerodynamics, and in the FPP MSc track are also allowed to choose one of the wind energy thesis topics (and vice versa).

For general questions about thesis projects at the Wind Energy Group you can contact  Delphine de Tavernier .

Master Projects Aeroacoustics

Are you looking for a Master Thesis and have a solid background in Physics and Mathematics? Are you interested in aerodynamics, propulsion or wind‑energy and would like to work in Aeroacoustics?

Our group might be then a good choice for you! Aeroacoustics is becoming one of the most important challenges for engineers either approaching an industrial or an academic career in propulsion, wind energy and aerodynamics. Most of the companies working in collaboration with the AWEP department are increasingly asking for aeroacoustic knowledge and sponsoring studies for several applications ranging from wind‑turbine blades, aircraft design, jet noise etc.

We have a series of Master Projects available for you in the following subjects:

• Trailing‑edge noise reduction in wind‑turbines
• Porous materials for noise reduction
• Mitigation of installation effects in propeller aircraft
• Aeroacoustic of drones and engine noise reduction
• Ducted wind‑turbines for on‑shore application
• Noise reduction of future engines with boundary‑layer ingestion
• Personal Air Vehicles (PAV) and drone aeroacoustics
• Digital aircraft noise certification and flight-test uncertainties

Together with a growing interests in aeroacoustic studies of students of the Delft University of Technology, the master projects focusing on aeroacoustics are proposed to provide students with a broader knowledge of the noise sources and their measurements in wind tunnels by both lectures and laboratory activities. We have a team of faculty members and PhD candidates to help master students working with state of the art flow and noise measurement techniques. Are you looking for a fundamental study... for an industrial one... numerical or experimental and you just can’t decide? Do not hesitate, pass by for a short talk!

 ... need help or info? come visit us in Room 62‑5.07, Kluyverweg 1, 2629HS, Delft Experimental topics:  Dr. Daniele Ragni Numerical topics:  Dr. Francesco Avallone

M aster Projects Kite Power

Here  is the link to thesis projects related to kites.

Numerical study of wind-farm gravity waves: Impact of wind-farm configuration

Floortje van Gaalen

Quantifying the environmental footprint of offshore wind farm decommissioning

Harika Gurram

Investigate Aerodynamic Performance of a Counter-Rotating Wind Turbine

Jung-Ting Chang

Impacts of Climate Change on Wind Farms in Europe

Kirsten Coutinho

Life cycle assessment of a soft-wing airborne wind energy system and its application within an off-grid hybrid power plant configuration

Lennard Mascini

The Integration of Mooring System Design with Floating Wind Farm Layout Optimization

Lisette van Es

A techno-economic methodology and analysis of combining offshore solar and offshore wind farms worldwide

Marlon van Crugten

Turbulent boundary layer trailing edge noise reduction by employing a porous add-on

Martijn Kanger

Quantifying windfarm-windfarm interactions using a modified RANS canopy model

Mathis Miroux

Computational Fluid Dynamics of a Floating Offshore Wind Turbine using OpenFoam: validation of the numerical model against test data

Mustafa Güverte

Experimental & Computational validation of Junction Flow for a Strut Braced Wing

Pascal Appel

Explainable AI for wind turbine fault detection

Roel Breure

The role of electrolysers in the ecosystem around the offshore wind landing sites in the Rotterdam port area beyond 2030.

Saiteja Ravi

Analysing and optimizing the value of Hybrid renewable power plant interaction with GreenNH3 production in Future energy markets.

Sasha Chernyavskii

Characterisation of wind turbine blade dynamic loads under normal and fault conditions.

Veerle Witkop

Wind Farm Cable Routing Optimization for Floating Offshore Wind

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