Power To Paris: The Role of Carbon Capture and Storage in a Future European Electricity System that Abides by the COP21 Climate Agreement

To limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius in 2100, the European power sector needs to transform. Renewable energy capacity is required to reach this ambition, together with transmission and storage capacity to maintain grid stability. Carbon capture and storage could potentially decrease the required renewable energy capacity, while...

The near wake structure of a vertical axis wind turbine: Including the Development of a 3D Unsteady Free-Wake Panel Method for VAWTs

A 3D unsteady multi-body panel method is developed that can model arbitrary geometries. The method has been specifically designed so that it can handle the blade-wake interactions and viscous wake effects that are important for modelling a vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT). A systematic validation and verification of the model is presented...