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Dr. Dimitris Manolas
Mechanical Engineer, PhD, NTUA
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Mechanical Engineer (2007, NTUA) with a PhD degree in wind turbines' servo-hydro-aero-elasticity (2015, NTUA), working in the wind energy sector since 2009. Partner at iWind Renewables SA since January 2018, with special interest in aero-elasticity and wind turbine analysis and design, onshore and offshore. Part-time professor teaching wind turbines' aero-elasticity in ICARE (HUST University, Wuhan-China) and in EUREC (NTUA, Athens-Greece) Master programs since 2016.
Developed the comprehensive aeroelastic analysis tool hGAST, the frequency domain hydrodynamic solver freFLOW and the fully non-linear hydrodynamic solver hFLOW. Authored 43 scientific articles in refereed journals and conference proceedings. Involved in 13 national and EU-funded R&D research projects related to energy systems and in more than 100 commercial projects related to:
Developed the comprehensive aeroelastic analysis tool hGAST, the frequency domain hydrodynamic solver freFLOW and the fully non-linear hydrodynamic solver hFLOW. Authored 43 scientific articles in refereed journals and conference proceedings. Involved in 13 national and EU-funded R&D research projects related to energy systems and in more than 100 commercial projects related to:
- Loads analysis of the coupled wind turbine system (onshore, bottom-fixed or floating)
- Aeroelastic stability analysis addressing stall and vortex induced vibrations (SIV and VIV) on idling/parked or incomplete rotor configurations during assembly
- Fatigue damage analysis and remaining lifetime estimation of the main wind turbine components
- Aero-elastic tailoring of wind turbine blades through passive control methods
- Design and assessment of active control methods for loads reduction
- Design (preliminary and detailed) of the floater and its mooring system
- Damping estimation using Operational Modal Analysis (OMA) techniques
- Analysis of SCADA data