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Rajpal, D. (author), Gillebaart, E. (author), De Breuker, R. (author)Including a gust analysis in an optimization framework is computationally expensive as the critical load cases are not known a priori and hence a large number of points within the flight envelope have to be analyzed. Model order reduction techniques can provide significant improvement in computational efficiency of an aeroelastic analysis. In...journal article 2019
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Handojo, V.H. (author), Meddaikar, M.Y. (author), Dillinger, J.K.S. (author), Sodja, J. (author), De Breuker, R. (author)This paper presents a semi-experimental method which can be used to predict the gust response of a wind tunnel model. The method incorporates transfer functions of the wind tunnel model – in this case a flexible forward swept wing – which are obtained using sweep excitations with a gust generator. The prediction results are then compared with...conference paper 2019
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Rajpal, D. (author), De Breuker, R. (author)High aspect ratio strut braced aircraft can significantly reduce the induced drag. The inherent anisotropic behaviour of the composite material along with their weight saving potential can improve the performance of the aircraft during the flight. Thus, a composite strut braced aircraft is one of the promising candidates to achieve the...conference paper 2019
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Lancelot, P.M.G.J. (author), De Breuker, R. (author)The proposed approach in this paper aims to bring the accuracy of CFD to quick linear aeroelastic simulations for structural sizing. This is achieved by deriving reduced-order models (ROM) of the aircraft movables, gust loads and manoeuvres loads from rigid CFD analysis and to use these as substitutes for the loads in the aeroelastic simulation....conference paper 2018
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Bussemaker, Jasper (author)Improving the performance of large transport aircraft requires high aspect ratio and lightweight wings, making aeroelasticity an important factor in wing structural design. Active control of aeroelastic loads can be used to improve the aeroelastic behavior of the wing.<br/><br/>Two active load control techniques are considered: Maneuver Load...master thesis 2018
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Smeur, E.J.J. (author), de Croon, G.C.H.E. (author), Chu, Q. P. (author)This paper presents the cascaded integration of Incremental Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion (INDI) for attitude control and INDI for position control of micro air vehicles. Significant improvements over a traditional Proportional Integral Derivative (PID) controller are demonstrated in an experiment where the quadrotor flies in and out of a 10 m...journal article 2018
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Bos, R. (author)Wind turbines are the largest rotating machines on the planet, operating in some of the most remote and hostile areas. During a lifespan of several decades, they have to withstand storms, waves, and gusts (and preferably produce electricity in the process). Yet, designers cannot make them too strong. Every additional kilogram of mass has to be...doctoral thesis 2017
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Lancelot, P.M.G.J. (author), Sodja, J. (author), Werter, N.P.M. (author), De Breuker, R. (author)This paper summarises the design of a gust generator and the comparison between high fidelity numerical results and experimental results. The gust generator has been designed for a low subsonic wind tunnel in order to perform gust response experiments on wings and assess load alleviation. Special attention has been given to the different...journal article 2017
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Lancelot, P.M.G.J. (author), Sodja, J. (author), De Breuker, R. (author)A detailed performance investigation of the gust generator built for the Open Jet Facility wind tunnel at TU Delft is summarised in this paper. The influence of various parameters such as reduced frequency, measurement location, and excitation amplitude on the generated gust profile was quantified. In addition, unsteady lift measurements were...conference paper 2017
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Bordogna, M.T. (author), Lancelot, P.M.G.J. (author), Bettebghor, Dimitri (author), De Breuker, R. (author)In the present paper the authors want to investigate the effect of different load configuration in order to identify the ones driving the optimization. A set of static loads, gust loads and static loads with maneuver load alleviation (MLA) are tested. Gust loads have been included in the optimization via an equivalent static load (ESL)....conference paper 2017
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Westerveld, D. (author)Aircraft wings are becoming more flexible, making it important to take this flexibility into account from the start of the design process. With flexible wings, unsteady (time-varying) aerodynamics becomes important. For this reason, an unsteady aerodynamics model was constructed and coupled to an aeroelastic flight mechanics tool. This allows...master thesis 2016
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Bos, R. (author), Giyanani, A.H. (author), Bierbooms, W.A.A.M. (author)Lidars have gained a lot of popularity in the field of wind energy, partly because of their potential to be used for wind turbine control. By scanning the oncoming wind field, any threats such as gusts can be detected early and high loads can be avoided by taking preventive actions. Unfortunately, lidars suffer from some inherent weaknesses that...journal article 2016
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Lancelot, P.M.G.J. (author), Sodja, J. (author), Werter, N.P.M. (author), De Breuker, R. (author)This paper summarises the design of a gust generator and the comparison between high fidelity numerical results and experimental results. The gust generator has been designed for a low subsonic wind tunnel in order to perform gust response experiments on wings and assess load alleviation. Special attention has been given to the different design...conference paper 2015
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Bos, R. (author), Bierbooms, W.A.A.M. (author), Van Bussel, G.J.W. (author)An important problem that arises during the design of wind turbines is estimating extreme loads with sufficient accuracy. This is especially difficult during iterative design phases when computational resources are scarce. Over the years, many methods have been proposed to extrapolate extreme load distributions from relatively short time series...conference paper 2015
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Verhagen, H.J. (author), Klein Breteler, M. (author), Bottema, M. (author)Korte notitie over het risico van een tsunami en een meteotsunami langs de Nederlandse kust.report 2014
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Van Engelen, T. (author), Schuurmans, J. (author), Kanev, S. (author), Dong, J. (author), Verhaegen, M.H.G. (author), Hayashi, Y. (author)Extreme environmental conditions as well as system failure are real-life phenomena. Especially offshore, extreme environmental conditions and system faults are to be dealt with in an effective way. The project Sustainable Control, a new approach to operate wind turbines (Agentschap NL, grant EOSLT02013) pro- vides the concepts for an integrated...conference paper 2011
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Bierbooms, W.A.A.M. (author), Peeringa, J. (author)Up to now just deterministic gust shapes are specified in standards; e.g. the Extreme Operating Gust (IEC) is given by a Mexican hat like shape. In this paper gust shapes will be determined by application of so-called constrained stochastic simulation. This method specifies how to efficiently generate time series around some specific event (e.g....conference paper 2009
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Bierbooms, W.A.A.M. (author)The method of so-called constrained stochastic simulation is introduced. This method specifies how to efficiently generate time series around some specific event in a normal process. All events which can be expressed by means of a linear condition (constraint) can be dealt with. Two examples are given in the paper: the generation of stochastic...journal article 2005
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Vink, W.J. (author), de Jonge, J.B. (author)The present report is part of a "Manual" on aircraft loads, that is being prepared by NLR. It contains a computer program, to be used in combination with "MATLAB4 for Windows" (Student Edition) software, to study aircraft loading due to turbulence. It includes a simple aircraft response model with two rigid and three flexible symmetric degrees...report 1997