• Wetting State Transitions over Hierarchical Conical Microstructures 

      Park, Il Woong; Fernandino, Maria; Dorao, Carlos Alberto (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Advancing in a better understanding of the physics of wetting requires to be able to develop surfaces with well‐controlled roughness by controlling the microstructure morphology. In this study, patterned truncated cones ...
    • What Is the Impact of Accidentally Transporting Terrestrial Alien Species? A New Life Cycle Impact Assessment Model 

      Borgelt, Jan Simon; Dorber, Martin; Géron, Charly; Kuipers, Koen Jacobus Josefus; Huijbregts, Mark A. J.; Verones, Francesca (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
      Alien species form one of the main threats to global biodiversity. Although Life Cycle Assessment attempts to holistically assess environmental impacts of products and services across value chains, ecological impacts of ...
    • When do allocations and constructs respect material, energy, financial, and production balances in LCA and EEIO? 

      Majeau-Bettez, Guillaume; Wood, Richard; Hertwich, Edgar G.; Strømman, Anders Hammer (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      Conservation of mass and energy are essential to physical accounting, just as price and market balances are essential to economic accounting. These principles guide data collection and inventory compilation in industrial ...
    • Which practices co-deliver food security, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and combat land degradation and desertification? 

      Smith, Pete; Calvin, Katherine; Nkem, Johnson; Campbell, Donovan; Cherubini, Francesco; Grassi, Giacomo; Korotkov, Vladimir; Le Hoang, Anh; Lwasa, Shuaib; McElwee, Pamela; Nkonya, Ephraim; Saigusa, Nobuko; Soussana, Jean-Francois; Taboada, Miguel Angel; Manning, Frances C.; Nampanzira, Dorothy; Arias-Navarro, Cristina; Vizzarri, Matteo; House, Jo; Roe, Stephanie; Cowie, Annette; Rounsevell, Mark; Arneth, Almut (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      There is a clear need for transformative change in the land management and food production sectors to address the global land challenges of climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation, combatting land degradation ...
    • Whole building life cycle Assessment(WBLCA) of an adaptive reuse of a heritage building: A case study of an Industrial building 

      Ali, Zohaib (Master thesis, 2023)
      Rehabilitering av bygninger og adaptiv gjenbruk er kjent for å ha mindre miljøpåvirkning sammenlignet med riving av eksisterende bygning og oppføring av et nytt bygg. Imidlertid kan renovering og adaptive gjenbruksprosesser ...
    • Why rogue waves occur atop abrupt depth transitions 

      Li, Yan; Draycott, Samuel; Zheng, Yaokun; Lin, Zhiliang; Adcock, Thomas A. A.; van den Bremer, Ton S. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Abrupt depth transitions (ADTs) have recently been identified as potential causes of ‘rogue’ ocean waves. When stationary and (close-to-) normally distributed waves travel into shallower water over an ADT, distinct spatially ...
    • Wind Effects on a Sports Arena 

      Sundt, Sven-Håkon Wold (Master thesis, 2016)
      Wind effects on the Maier sports arena have been investigated with three different experiment types. The experiments were performed with open land and nearby structures , with south, southwest and west wind direction. ...
    • Wind Farm Control Methods - Yawing 

      Gitmark, John Magne (Master thesis, 2016)
      The wake effect of yawing an upstream turbines is of interest in order to increase power production. In this study, the case of yawing is considered as asymmetric do to the tower and rotor rotation, and measurements have ...
    • Wind farm performance 

      Marjan, Ali (Master thesis, 2016)
      Performance of the wind turbine in the wind farm has been analyzed using IEC61400-12-1 wind turbine power measurement standard. Ten minutes averaged wind data was acquired from Windcube v2 LIDAR over the period of twelve ...
    • Wind farm performance - Power Analysis of a wind turbine 

      Esquinas Herrera, Alejandro (Master thesis, 2016)
      Wind conditions from a wind farm situated in Ørland were analyzed based on a ten minute measurements in order to obtain the power and efficiency curves. The results from the analysis were compared with different curves ...
    • Wind field measurements in urban environments 

      Krohg, Petter Nicolai (Master thesis, 2021)
      Ettersom verden streber etter å senke klima utslipp og forurensing blir fokuset mer og mer rettet mot fornybar energiproduksjon. Kan vind produksjon i urbane miljøer bidra til å senke både lokale og globale utslipp. Et ...
    • Wind in Complex Terrain - Lidar Measurements for Evaluation of CFD Simulations 

      Risan, Andrea; Lund, John Amund; Chang, Chi-Yao; Sætran, Lars Roar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is widely used to predict wind conditions for wind energy production purposes. However, as wind power development expands into areas of even more complex terrain and challenging flow ...
    • Wind power for cooking 

      Finsås, Henrik Lund; Mjåtveit, Torbjørn Løvik (Master thesis, 2023)
      Tilgangen på elektrisitet i Tanzania har det siste tiåret vært av de raskest voksende i subsahariske Afrika, med en økende tilgang fra 7% til 37.7% mellom 2011 og 2020. Selv om tilgangen i urbane områder har nådd 73.2%, ...
    • Wind power for cooking 

      Finsås, Henrik Lund; Mjåtveit, Torbjørn Løvik (Master thesis, 2023)
      Tilgangen på elektrisitet i Tanzania har det siste tiåret vært av de raskest voksende i subsahariske Afrika, med en økende tilgang fra 7% til 37.7% mellom 2011 og 2020. Selv om tilgangen i urbane områder har nådd 73.2%, ...
    • Wind tunnel experiments on wind turbine wakes in yaw: effects of inflow turbulence and shear 

      Bartl, Jan Michael Simon; Mühle, Franz Volker; Schottler, Jannik; Sætran, Lars Roar; Peinke, Joachim; Adaramola, Muyiwa S.; Holling, Micheal (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      The wake characteristics behind a yawed model wind turbine exposed to different customized inflow conditions are investigated. Laser Doppler anemometry is used to measure the wake flow in two planes at x∕D = 3 and x∕D = 6, ...
    • Wind tunnel experiments on wind turbine wakes in yaw: redefining the wake width 

      Schottler, Jannik; Bartl, Jan Michael Simon; Mühle, Franz Volker; Sætran, Lars Roar; Peinke, Joachim; Hölling, Michael (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      This paper presents an investigation of wakes behind model wind turbines, including cases of yaw misalignment. Two different turbines were used and their wakes are compared, isolating effects of boundary conditions and ...
    • Wind tunnel investigation on the effect on the turbine tower on wind turbines wake symmetry 

      Pierella, F; Sætran, Lars Roar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      In wind farms, the wake of the upstream turbines becomes the inflow for the downstream machines. Ideally, the turbine wake is a stable vortex system. In reality, because of factors like background turbulence, mean flow ...
    • Wind tunnel model testing of offshore platforms 

      Abrahamsen, Ida Sinnes (Master thesis, 2012)
      The purpose of this thesis is to highlight some of the areas of interest when it comes to wind tunnel experimenting of offshore platforms regarding stability concerns such as critical angles and wind overturning moment. ...
    • Wind tunnel study on power output and yaw moments for two yaw-controlled model wind turbines 

      Bartl, Jan Michael Simon; Mühle, Franz Volker; Sætran, Lars Roar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      In this experimental wind tunnel study the effects of intentional yaw misalignment on the power production and loads of a downstream turbine are investigated for full and partial wake overlap. Power, thrust force and yaw ...
    • Wind Tunnel Study on the Tip Speed Ratio’s Impact on a Wind Turbine Wake Development 

      Neunaber, Ingrid; Hölling, Michael; Obligado, Martin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      (based on the turbine diameter and the freestream velocity). For all cases, the mean streamwise velocity deficit at the centerline evolves close to a power law in the far wake, and we check the validity of the Jensen and ...