April 2023

QBlade’s SIL Interface with Matlab: An Interactive Tutorial

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 […]

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QBlade’s Most Comprehensive validation to date

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

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