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The predictive engineering of materials is matured from predicting properties from known morphology or constituents to engineering novel morphology for superior properties. The focus of this paper is about implementation of computational material mechanics modeling method in COMSOL multiphysics software for engineering the constituents for superior properties. A brief review of property prediction methods, advantages and potential superior properties of composite materials are given. Numerical implementation of representative volume based computational micromechanics in COMSOL with periodic boundary condition is detailed. The prediction methodology and results of linear and nonlinear bulk material properties are provided. The effect of reinforcement shape, size, orientation and length is also investigated and reported with particular emphasis on superior properties. The advantages of windowing approach, COMSOL parametric models, and the ability to investigate materials at micro level for superior macroscopic performance is detailed.
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Do you have the goal of building a system that can be extended and adapted without programmer intervention? Do you have the itch to explore meta-programming, not just because it is cool or complicated, but because you want your system's behavior or domain representations to scale? If so, consider learning about the design of systems that represent user-defined behavior specifications as metadata.
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Do you have the goal of building a system that can be extended and adapted without programmer intervention? Do you have the itch to explore meta-programming, not just because it is cool or complicated, but because you want your system's behavior or domain representations to scale? If so, consider learning about the design of systems that represent user-defined behavior specifications as metadata.
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1. Ghent Ostend Wind Research Institute
Extended version
Founded in Ghent on 06 April 2011
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2. GOwind!
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3. Powered by AUGent
Association Ghent University (AUGent) is grouped around Ghent University,
one of the two major universities in Flanders, Belgium.
In total it is home to 5.000 researchers and 32.000 students.
It has 11 faculties, of which the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture is
one of the biggest with 2200 students and 850 (a.o. 150 professors)
researchers working in different fields ranging from architecture, ICT,
materials as well as electrical, mechanical and thermal energy systems.
The associate partners relevant for GOwind! are the university colleges
HoGent (Ghent, Belgium) and HoWest (Kortrijk, Belgium). Both are strongly
connected to the local SME-market and can rely on excellent and extensive
test infrastructure.
AUGent promotes
application focused research and industrial collaborations
translating research results into economic activities
More info and links at www.gowind.ugent.be
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4. Disciplines vs. themes
University
association
Association
partners
Faculties
Societal theme
Research
groups
Traditional structure focussed on disciplines
SET is an application and domain specific multidisciplinary cluster
that pools the expertise from the research groups to bring added
value in the societal theme of sustainable energy technologies.
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5. SET and GOwind
To be a single point of contact for external partners
Support existing industrial activities
• To stimulate application focused research activities in answer
to the multi disciplinary challenges residing in industry, i.e.:
Create new industrial activities
• To identify and build up a portfolio of research results that
can be translated in economic activities (spin-offs, licences)
• To set out and coordinate the actions (IP, valorisation
projects, ad-hoc financing, contracts) required in creating
these economic activities
GOwind!, the SET philosophy
on wind energy showing
our commitment to this theme
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6. Table of contents
1. Research topics
2. Test infrastructure
3. Research groups
4. GOwind! and the knowledge triangle
5. Contact
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7. Small, large and off-shore
Small and medium turbines
Large turbines
Off-shore turbines
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8. Research topics
Condition monitoring
Drive train
Blades
Tower
Foundations
Grid coupling
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9. Blades
BLADES
Composite blades
• Structural design of composites
• Fatigue of composites models
• Nondestructive inspection of composites using optic fibers
• Structural health monitoring using ultra sound polar plots
• Self-healing composite materials
Smart blades
• Combined fluid-structural simulation
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10. Structural design of composites
Advanced calculation environment:
CAE/CAD:
SolidWorks, Catia
Finite elements:
Abaqus, LS-Dyna
Composite draping modules:
Catia/CPD, Simulayt
Optimization software iSight
UM software for kinematics and
multibody dynamics
Access to HPC cluster
with 2000+ cores
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11. Structural design of composites
Adhesive joints in composite materials and hybrid materials
Simulation of “mode I” crack growth in a Double Cantilever Beam (DCB) specimen
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12. Fatigue of composites
Damage behaviour of fibre-reinforced composites under biaxial fatigue
loading
Shape optimization with evolutionary strategies: coupling of Java master
routine, ABAQUS FEA analysis and Python scripting in a fully automated loop
for complicated optimization problems.
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13. Fatigue of composites
Load sequence effect on damage-cycle history
1.0
0.9
0.8
0.7
Damage [-]
0.6 high-low sequence
low-high sequence
0.5
0.4
0.3
Cycle-mix effect on damage-cycle history
0.2
1.0
0.1
0.9
0.0
0 100000 200000 300000 400000 500000 0.8
No. of cycles [-] 0.7
Damage [-]
0.6 small blocks
large blocks
Residual stiffness models account for 0.5
0.4
stress redistribution and load history 0.3
dependence of damage evolution 0.2
(in contrast to Miner’s rule) 0.1
0.0
0 100000 200000 300000 400000
No. of cycles [-]
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14. Self healing composite materials
New SIM project on self-healing polymers and composites
- Focus on cold-curing resins for infusion of wind turbine blades
- Collaboration with Momentive Specialty Systems (formerly Hexion)
Simulation of crack growth and self-healing
-> regaining of static and fatigue strength
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15. Nondestructive inspection
NDT-characterization of fibre-reinforced composites
C-scan of a delaminated carbon/epoxy composite
Polar scan Carbon/epoxy - UD Carbon/epoxy-fabric Glass/polyester - UD
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16. Simulation of Fluid-Structure Interaction
Simulation of interaction between deforming or moving structures and the
surrounding fluid (gas or liquid)
Improved prediction of load on wind turbine blades
• Flow-induced vibration of turbine blades
• Additional motion when wake of blade passes tower
Linked to so-called smart rotor blades
• Blade shape changes over wind speed and rotor speed to alleviate loads
Fluid-structure interaction code Tango
• Used in several ongoing research
projects, on own cluster and HPC
• Validated with internationally
accepted benchmarks
• www.FSI.UGent.be
FSI2 benchmark: Flexible beam behind a
rigid cylinder in a horizontal channel
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17. Tower/Foundation
TOWER/FOUNDATION
Foundations
• Scour protection around mono-pile foundations
Wave slamming
• Prediction of wave run up
• Predicition of structural stress
Tower
• Impact of imbalance of blades onto tower
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18. Scour protection mono-piles
Test setup for scour protection
Optimal size of bricks (riprap)
Design method for cost-effective scour protection
based on dynamically stabile erosion protection
strategies
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19. Offshore foundations
Wave run-up of off-shore structures
Simulation results are validated with
experimental results
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20. Coupled tower/blades sim
Kinematic analysis of rotating vertical
axis wind turbine with effects of
imbalance (due to small mass
differences between blades), resulting in
precession motion.
Body Element Model
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21. Drive train
DRIVE TRAIN
Generator
• Design, simulation and prototyping of electrical machines
• Capex vs. Opex: impact of magnetic material choices on energy yield
Control
• Maximum power poin tracking techniques for small wind turbines
• Model predictive control
• Sensorless control of electrical machines
• Vector control of permanent magnet electrical machines
Polymer bearings
• Fretting fatigue
• Polymer tribology
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22. Axial-flux generators
Axial flux generator for small wind
turbines show excellent (low)
cogging torque and high efficiency
Electrical, mechanical and thermal
design and simulation of the generator
Prototype building
Experimental results
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23. Impact of magnetic material
Optimisation of annual yield (opex)
for two magnetic materials with
a different cost (capex).
Does a more expensive
material choice pay off?
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24. Control of electric machines
Efficient control, control of dynamics, field weakening at high speed
Induction machines, permanent-magnet machines (PMSM)
Modelling dynamical behaviour, stability studies
Stability study of a digitally controlled
vector controlled PMSM drive with PMSM drive
rotor position estimator by using the root locus method
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25. Modeling of SMWT
Full system model of small and medium wind turbines including the turbine
rotor, the generator and the power electronics.
An important parameter in predicting the energy yield from wind turbines is
the Cp. Three traditional models are used. However in reality this Cp is
almost never observed due to suboptimal maximum power point tracking
algoritms.
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26. Sensorless control
Position sensors for electrical machines are costly and vulnerable. This leads
to additional black-out times.
The use of sensors can be avoided by interpreting the electrical signals of the
electrical machines, this is sensorless control.
UGent has patented technology in this field.
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27. Grid interaction
GRID INTERACTION
Grid coupling of decentralised units
• Multi-level converters
• Power electronics for improved power quality
• Advanced control in µ-grid operation
• LESTS aspects on eco-industrial parks
Farm operation
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28. Multilevel convertors
Grid connecting wind turbines and large (offshore) wind parks
can benefit from power-electronics operating at higher voltages.
Such higher voltage allow to reduce the power loses.
Multi-level convertors allow DC/AC conversion (or vice versa)
respecting the voltage limitations of the switches
A careful balance of the capacitor voltages is required
Such balancing techniques
were developed at UGent
a.o. based on MPC for three
phase convertors.
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29. Grid coupling
Full three phase power grid inverters for decentralised energy resources. The
inverters implementing a three-phase damping control strategy.
Such control strategy results in the inverter behaving resistively towards
unbalance and distortions in the grid voltage.
Hence, the grid inverter supports the grid and improves power quality.
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30. Wind turbines in µ-grids
Small and medium wind turbines
can be incorporated into a µ-grid
wether or not connected to the
distributed grid.
This incorporation requires special
control strategies and power
electronics. Our approach does not
require any additional
communication.
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31. Model Predictive Control
Wind parks: SELFISH CONTROL (one section) vs. SOLIDARY CONTROL
(global optimization)
MPC using LIDAR information
Challenges:
• Control over communciation
networks
• Hierarchical control
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32. Eco-industrial park
The potential of wind energy can only
be realised if wind turbines become
more accepted by the different stake-
holders. This is facilitated by technical
advances as well as non-technical
aspects.
One way to structure and tackle these is
using and investigating the LESTS:
• Legal aspects
• Economical aspects
• Social aspects
• Technical aspects
• Spatial aspects
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33. Condition monitoring
CONDITION MONITORING
Optical sensors embedded in blades for condition monitoring
Accelerometers to detect vibrations and wear
Argus data-acquistion and communication platform to collect
sensor readings
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34. Structural health monitoring
Multi-axial optical fibre sensors + smaller diameter 80 m -> ideal for
embedding in composite structures
Embedded optical fibre
sensors showing no stiffness
degradation, and small
permanent strain
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35. Structural health monitoring
New FP7 project “SMARTFIBER”,
aiming at embedding wireless
miniaturized strain sensors
inside the composite blades
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36. Vibrations
• Starting from a macroscopic discretisation of a physical structure bearing in
mind its basic function (e.g. Motor, axis, gear-box, ... )
• Goal is to gain a global insight in where to measure and where and how to
control
• The approach allows to include the impact of:
• Non-linear vibrations (amplitude dependent damping, ... )
• Control-loops (e.g. Motor/generator control with PID)
• Approach is ideally suited for
• Complex systems with only few sensors
• Evaluating and design passive compensation systems for absorption of
vibrations
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37. Vibrations
Torsional vibrations of coupled rotors:
• Transient vibrations
• Stationary vibrations
• Techniques for absorption of vibrations
• Experimental test setups.
Rotor dynamics:
• Analysis and experimental modelling
• Non-linear vibrations
• Model reduction
• Experimental test setups
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38. Argus
Modular platform with user-friendly interface
for remote monitoring of plants of
decentralised energy resources
Allows to include the sensor read out of
numerous sensors e.g. wind speed,
direction, humidity, inverter temp.,
grid injected power
Possibility to remotely reset the power inverter
IP
network
(internet,
VPN …)
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39. Exploitation
EXPLOITATION
Wind conditions
• Floating LIDAR
Noise
• Generation
• Propagation
• Annoyance research
Repair and maintenance
• Planning
• System for lifting person and goods
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40. FLIDAR
Involved as subcontractor in the OWI project
Floating LIDAR
Structural analysis and stabilisation of buoy
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41. Polymer tribology
We have large experimental and
simulation capabilities, to test tribology
at different scales.
Focus on polymer tribology
Polymer parts in wind energy systems
can be used for:
• Bearing separators
• Braking systems
• Pitch and yaw drive components
Such parts are able to leverage on the fact that
• Complex lubricating systems can be avoided
• Less maintenance is required even in the presence of foreign agents
• They weight less
• These are corrosion resistant
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42. Tests on Large scale bearings
Experimental
Bearing stress distribution during loading
cycle
Numerical
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43. Fracture and plasticity
Setting up models understanding the physical process
Model validation and correlation between simulations and
measurement results
Performance parameters Experiment Finite element simulation
(digital image correlation) (parametric Python scripting)
First principal
strain (-)
Validation of model 0.035
Better interpretation
of experiment 0.000
Parametric
studies
Performance
parameters
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44. Fretting fatigue
In the gearbox (tool long at break position)
In the blade pitch bearings (too long in fixed position)
UGent tool
For FE simulation and modeling
To simulate the crack initiation
To simulate the crack propagation
F(x)
q(x)
σ axial
σ axial
Lap-joint
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45. Acoustics
Microphones array allows identification of sources and feeds propagation
models.
Shortterm and longterm monitoring of windturbines at different sites, e.g. off-
shore during piling (C-power) and operation (BelPower).
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Geluidsniveau (LX, 10min in dBA)
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46. Acoustics
Annoyance research te Oostakker (turbines @ Volvo).
Most noise is generated in the direction in which the turbine blades are
coming down and in case of higher wind speeds.
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47. Planning
Industrial management
and planning.
Lean manufacturing.
Impact in terms of
efficiency and cost
of material kitting,
sequencing and downsizing
in the line assembly.
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48. R&M activities of wind turbines
Repair and maintenance activities on wind
turbines need to be minimised.
Still such activities are required and one
needs to be able to perform them on a
save, (cost)efficient and (energy)efficient
manner.
This project develops an efficient, user-
friendly electrical pulley for R&M
activities on wind turbines.
(in collaboration with FallProtec, Lux)
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49. Table of contents
1. Research topics
2. Test infrastructure
3. Research groups
4. GOwind! and the knowledge triangle
5. Contact
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50. Simulation tools
Expertise and know how in using, a.o.
Matlab/simulink
Mathcad
CAD
Abaqus
Fluent
Ansys
Catia
Comsol
Python scripting
Own software tools
+ HPC cluster with 12000+ cores!
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51. SWT-Field Laboratory
Field laboratory @ Greenbridge, Ostend (B)
10 turbine masts operating as a field laboratory (not demo) for research
institutes and manufacturers
Rearch infrastructure includes:
• Noise camera’s and microphone array to investigate noise propagation
• Acoustic camera for structural health monitoring
• Meteo-mast
• Mobile data aquistion system
incl. strain gauges, speed,
torque, voltage and current
sensors
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53. Electrical test infrastructure
Power electronics and electrical machines, e.g.
• 240kVA power source
• Test rigs for electrical machines
• Vibrations
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54. Tribological characterization
Wind turbine Configuration
Applications
Laboratory Soete
•Braking systems
•Glides for yaw •Stick slip tester
bearing •Bearing tester
•Bearing elements
Morell Radial Bearing
Gliding elements
(POM, PA)
Medium scale flat Large scale flat
Ring Segments
Composite tester Plint
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55. Large scale fracture and plasticity
Optical strain measurement
(digital image correlation)
Metal structure
Plasticity
2500 kN
Notch
Fracture
mechanics
“Medium wide plate” tension test Laboratory Soete large scale test rigs:
Tensile forces up to 8000 kN
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56. Fatigue on different scales
Optical measurement of deformations
(monitoring of fatigue crack growth)
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57. Table of contents
1. Research topics
2. Test infrastructure
3. Research groups
4. GOwind! and the knowledge triangle
5. Contact
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58. Research groups (1)
Mechanics of Materials and Structures – J. Degrieck, W. Van Paepegem
• Structural design of composites
• Fatigue of composites
• Nondestructive inspection of composites
• Wave slamming on offshore structures
• Structural health monitoring
Acoustics – D. Botteldooren
• Noise sources and propagation from wind turbines and monitoring
• MER-reports (Environmental Impact Reports)
• Annoyance research
Coastal Engineering – J. De Rouck, P. Troch
• Sour protection of foundation
Mobility and Spatial Planning – G. Van Eetvelde
• Use of wind turbines in eco-industrial parks
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59. Research groups (2)
Mechanical Construction and Production - Laboratory Soete – P. De Baets
• Frictions, bearings, fretting fatigue,
Electrical Energy Laboratory – J. Melkebeek, A. Van den Bossche, L. Dupré,
L. Vandevelde
• Electrical, magnetic and thermal design of electrical machines
• Power electronics
• Grid coupling and incorporation in µ-grids
SYSTeMS – R. De keyser, M. Loccufier
• Control theory for low level control of individual components, model predictive control for
master control of wind turbines/farms, analysis and prevention of vibrations
Fluid Mechanics – J. Vierendeels
• Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
• Simulation of Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI)
Industrial management – H. Van Landegem
• Lean manufacturing, cost and efficiency impact of industrial planning
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60. Research groups (3)
Wireless & Cable – Luc Martens
• Impact of wind turbines on radar signals
UGent – Associate partners
HoGent – Electrotechnics – P. Sergeant
• Design and testing of electrical machines
HoWest – Electromechanics – K. Stockman, J. Desmet
• Grid coupling
• Test infrastructure for electrical machines
• Vibrations
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61. Table of contents
1. Research topics
2. Test infrastructure
3. Research groups
4. GOwind! and the knowledge triangle
5. Contact
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62. Knowledge triangle
Applied research bounding on the fundamental research
• GOwind! part of SET and energy research at Ghent University
Entrepreneurship
• Power-Link: networking partner in energy
• Greenbridge: incubator, science park and demonstrator
Education
• Two Masters in Energy Technologies
• Institute for permanent education
Networking
• Power-Link vzw
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63. Master thesis projects
Academic year 2011-2012
Modelling and emulation of small wind turbines
Stability of LIDAR measurement buoys for the registration of
offshore wind velocity profiles
Out-of-the-box design of a 50 meter rotor blade for MW turbines
Numerical simulation of the flow around wind turbine blades
Feasibility study on a tidal energy converter coupled to wind
turbines on sea
Numerical study on the interaction between waves and monopile
windturbines
… much more to come in academic year 2012-2013
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64. More information
Jeroen De Maeyer
p/a UGent-EELAB
Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41
B-9000 Ghent
T +32 9 264 79 14
M +32 471 58 88 32
Jeroen.demaeyer@ugent.be
www.GOwind.ugent.be
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