Join us for two exciting talks on QBlade, highlighting our work in the FLOATECH H2020 Offshore Wind Project Session 8.4b: Aero-Hydro-Servo-Elastic Coupled Dynamics Date: Wednesday, May 24, 2023 Time: 1:30 PM – 3:15 PM Talk 1: Robert Behrens de Luna : “Verification and Validation of QBlade-Ocean, a multi-body hydro-elastic expansion of the wind turbine simulation …
The QBlade team is attending WESC 2023 in Glasgow Read More »
The QBlade team will be attending the FOWT2023 conference in Nantes, France on May 10-12th! This event brings together experts and leaders in the offshore wind industry to discuss the latest technologies, innovations, and challenges facing the sector. If you are attending the FOWT2023 conference, we would love to connect with you! We welcome the …
Meet Us At FOWT 2023 in Nantes, France , May 10th-12th Read More »
Our friends at TU Delft, Livia Brandetti and Daniel van den Berg, have created a comprehensive tutorial on using QBlade within Matlab for advanced wind turbine research. Livia and Daniel’s research focus is on the development of active wake mixing controllers for floating offshore wind turbines and pitch controllers for vertical axis wind turbines. This …
QBlade’s SIL Interface with Matlab: An Interactive Tutorial Read More »
The FLOATECH project has just released deliverable D2.4 the latest validation report comparing the capabilities of QBlade with state-of-the-art codes OpenFAST and DeepLines Wind™ in predicting the behavior of three different Floating Offshore Wind Turbines (FOWTs) in realistic Design Load Case (DLC) scenarios. This extensive report provides valuable insights into the accuracy of numerical models …
Are you an offshore wind turbine engineer looking for an efficient way to test your designs against varying wave conditions? Did you know that QBlade features a built-in stand-alone wave generator? With just a few clicks, you can generate uni- or multi-directional waves for common spectra such as JONSWAP, ISSC, Torsethaugen, or Ochi-Hubble. Plus, you …
Today we announce the public release of the brand-new Simulation in Loop (SIL) interface for QBlade. Get Started with QBlade and Python: A Perfect Match for Wind Turbine Simulation! With this interface, you can now run QBlade’s advanced wind turbine simulations within the coding environment of your choice, including Python and Matlab. This flexibility opens …
After a great week at WindEnergy Hamburg we’re slowly getting our voices back… It was wonderful meeting friends and colleagues in person again after such a long time of only virtual interactions and we were overwhelmed by the large interest and positive feedback from all of you. Thanks to everyone for visiting our booth and …
Meet the QBlade Team in Hamburg! From the 27th till the 30th of September we are attending the WindEnergy Exhibition in Hamburg. Find us in Hall A1, Stand 255.1 Check out the newest features of QBlade 2.0 in live presentations, get info on our commercial licenses and meet the team. Book an appointment in advance …
More than 6 years have passed since the last release of QBlade (v0.96b). In these 6 years we have been working extensively on the integration and validation of several key features which were neccessary to bring the code-base to a level that allows for the efficient aero-elastic simulation of wind turbines in real world industrial-level …