New Advances in Fluid Machinery for Renewable Energy Conversion: Wind, Hydropower, and Wave Systems
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A3: Wind, Wave and Tidal Energy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 June 2026 | Viewed by 59
Special Issue Editors
Interests: wind turbine systems and wind–fluid energy conversion; fluid machinery for renewable energy (wind, hydropower, and wave systems); digital twin and SCADA-based monitoring for renewable energy systems; axial-flux permanent magnet and direct-drive generators; predictive maintenance, reliability analysis, and performance assessment of energy systems; hybrid renewable microgrids and distributed generation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Fluid-based renewable energy systems are playing an increasingly important role in the global transition toward low-carbon and sustainable energy. Among them, wind turbines, hydropower units, and wave energy converters form a family of fluid machinery that can efficiently harvest kinetic and potential energy from wind, rivers, irrigation channels, and oceans. Recent advances in aerodynamics and hydrodynamics, novel materials, power electronics, control, and data-driven methods are enabling higher efficiency, enhanced reliability, and more flexible operation in both large-scale power systems and distributed or off-grid applications.
This Special Issue, entitled “New Advances in Fluid Machinery for Renewable Energy Conversion: Wind, Hydropower, and Wave Systems”, aims to provide a unified platform for the latest theoretical, numerical, and experimental research on fluid machinery applied to renewable energy conversion. It welcomes contributions that address fundamental fluid–structure interaction, innovative component and system design, performance analysis, and practical deployment in real-world environments. Works that integrate monitoring, diagnostics, and digital twin technologies for the operation and maintenance of fluid-based renewable energy systems are particularly encouraged, in line with the aims and scope of Energies.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Aerodynamic and hydrodynamic design and optimization of blades, runners, rotors, and impellers for wind, hydropower, and wave systems;
- Small and large wind turbine systems, including innovative configurations, novel operation concepts, and feasibility studies for practical deployment;
- Micro-hydropower, low-head/high-head turbines, pumps-as-turbines, and water infrastructure energy recovery;
- Wave and tidal energy converters, hybrid wind–wave concepts, and coastal/offshore applications;
- Generator technologies (e.g., axial-flux and radial-flux permanent magnet machines) and power electronic conversion for fluid machinery-based systems;
- Modelling, control, and grid integration of wind, hydropower, and wave energy systems, including microgrids and distributed generation;
- Monitoring, diagnostics, and prognostics using SCADA, IoT, AI, and digital twin approaches;
- Reliability, life extension, and predictive maintenance strategies for renewable-energy fluid machinery operating in harsh environments.
Both original research articles and review papers are welcome, especially those demonstrating clear links between novel fluid machinery concepts and improved performance, reliability, and sustainability of renewable energy systems.
Dr. Yu-Jen Chen
Dr. Jui-Hung Liu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- wind turbines
- hydropower turbines
- wave energy converters
- fluid machinery
- aerodynamic and hydrodynamic design
- axial-flux permanent magnet generators
- power conversion and grid integration
- digital twin and SCADA-based monitoring
- reliability and predictive maintenance
- hybrid renewable energy systems
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