Advances in Modeling and Simulation of Wind and Solar Energy Systems for the Built Environment

The majority of the energy produced worldwide is based on fossil fuels, which have several negative impacts on the environment and contribute to global warming. The current political situation, together with the Paris Agreement on Climate Change has led to the need to replace fossil fuels with other energy sources. In this context, the use of renewable energy sources is growing exponentially. Renewable energy conversion typically uses clean technologies suitable for integration into sustainable systems.

On the transition path towards Renewable Energy Systems (RES), there are several challenges to increasing their energy performance, such as the development of wind systems by integrating high-speed increasers or counter-rotating rotors, the implementation of tracked photovoltaic systems, and their optimal control.

The goal of this Research Topic is to explore the impact of factors that influence the RES behavior aiming to optimize and increase the energy performance of renewable energy systems, for their affordable development at different scales. Computer-based RES modeling and simulation, along with experimental validation, are valuable approaches to identifying properties and developing innovative RES solutions.

This Research Topic focuses on the latest research in the field of modeling, simulation, optimization, and increasing performances of innovative solutions for affordable, sustainable, and environment-friendly wind and solar technologies for the built environment. The proposed topics include, but are not limited to:

- Innovative design of wind and solar energy conversion systems;
- Modelling and numerical simulation of wind and solar potential;
- Optimal design of wind and solar energy conversion systems;
- Modeling and optimization of wind and solar energy conversion system performances;
- Modeling and experimental testing of wind and solar energy conversion efficiency;
- Modeling and optimization of wind-solar hybrid energy systems
- Optimal integration of wind, solar, and hybrid systems in the built environment;
- Forecasting techniques for electricity production of wind and solar energy conversion systems;
- Control strategies and algorithms of wind and solar-based energy systems;
- Optimization techniques for wind and solar energy conversion systems.

Keywords: renewable energy systems, hybrid energy systems, optimization methodologies, control strategies, energy conversion, conversion efficiency, experimental testing, wind energy, solar energy, wind turbines, photovoltaic systems, solar thermal collectors, virtual prototiping, integration in the built environment

Important note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.