Advances in composite wind turbine blades: A comparative study

A PhD student in engineering at the University of Quebec at Chicoutimi (UQAC). I hold a BS and a MS in Mechanical Engineering from the Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon. Currently preparing my PhD thesis on ’Optimization of composite structures of wind turbine blades＂. Experience, skills and knowledge in the fields of aerodynamics, composites and optimization and its applications in Wind Energy. My master thesis was a comparative study of static and fatigue behaviours for various composite orthotropic properties for a wind turbine using a coupled FEM-BEM method under the supervision of Dean Dr Rafic Younes of the Faculty of Engineering at the Lebanese University. Some of my projects and work include ’preliminary study of the influence of air pollution on meteorology’, ’Hybrid System Photovoltaic-Wind’, ’yaw control for a wind turbine’, ’design and prototype of a sensor for wind direction using thermocouples’ and ’preliminary site study for the installation of 100 and 150 KW wind turbines in the Bekaa region.