Michael Muskulus

Professor

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

michael.muskulus@ntnu.no +47 73593113 +47 48138423

Byggteknisk, 2-077, Gløshaugen, Høgskoleringen 7a

Interests

Structural optimization of wind turbines
Wave forces on structures
Alternative concepts in wind energy (e.g. downwind, vertical axis, multi-rotor and floating turbines)
Stochastic dynamics
Massively parallel simulation
Advanced analysis methods for dynamical systems

My research group

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Projects

Professional activities

Past President European Academy of Wind Energy (EAWE)
Editor Journal of Ocean and Wave Energy
Associate Editor Wind Energy Science
Scientific Committee Norwegian Research Centre for Offshore Wind Technology (NOWITECH FME)
Technical Program Committee ISOPE Renewable Energy & Environment Symposium
Science & Research Topic Leader / Track Chair EWEA Annual Event and EWEA Offshore Conference

Teaching

TBA4275: Dynamic response to irregular loads (autumn)
BA8607: Design of offshore wind turbines (spring)

Consulting, Proposals, Ideas

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Scientific, academic and artistic work

A selection of recent journal publications, artistic productions, books, including book and report excerpts. See all publications in the database

Journal publications

Stieng, Lars Einar Sørensen; Muskulus, Michael. (2020) Reliability-based design optimization of offshore wind turbine support structures using analytical sensitivities and factorized uncertainty modeling. Wind Energy Science. vol. 5.
Danielsen, H. K.; Guzmán, F. G.; Muskulus, Michael; Rasmussen, B. H.; Shirani, M.; Cornel, D.; Sauvage, P.; Wu, J.; Petrov, R. V.; Jacobs, G.. (2019) FE8 type laboratory testing of white etching crack (WEC) bearing failure mode in 100Cr6. Wear. vol. 434-435.
Dornhelm, Esther; Seyr, Helene; Muskulus, Michael. (2019) Vindby—A Serious OffshoreWind Farm Design Game. Energies. vol. 12 (8).
Koochekali, Alahyar; Muskulus, Michael. (2019) Spatial met-ocean data analysis for the North Sea using copulas: application in lumping of offshore wind turbine fatigue load cases. Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS). vol. 1356 (1).
Seyr, Helene; Muskulus, Michael. (2019) Decision Support Models for Operations and Maintenance for Offshore Wind Farms: A Review. Applied Sciences. vol. 9 (2).
Seyr, Helene; Muskulus, Michael. (2019) Use of Markov decision processes in the evaluation of corrective maintenance scheduling policies for offshore wind farms. Energies. vol. 12 (15).
Stieng, Lars Einar; Muskulus, Michael. (2019) Load case reducation for offshore wind turbine support structure fatigue assessment by importance sampling with two-stage filtering. Wind Energy. vol. 22 (11).
Veers, Paul; Dykes, Katherine; Lantz, Eric; Barth, Stephan; Bottasso, Carlo L.; Carlson, Ola; Clifton, Andrew; Green, Johney; Green, Peter; Holttinen, Hannele; Laird, Daniel; Lehtomäki, Ville; Lundquist, Julie K.; Manwell, James; Marquis, Melinda; Meneveau, Charles; Moriarty, Patrick; Munduate, Xavier; Muskulus, Michael; Naughton, Jonathan; Pao, Lucy; Paquette, Joshua; Peinke, Joachim; Robertson, Amy; Rodrigo, Javier Sanz; Sempreviva, Anna Maria; Smith, J Charles; Tuohy, Aidan; Wiser, Ryan. (2019) Grand challenges in the science of wind energy. Science. vol. 366:eeau2027 (6464).
Watson, Simon; Moro, Alberto; Reis, Vera; Baniotopoulos, Charalampos; Barth, Stephan; Bartoli, Gianni; Bauer, Florian; Boelman, Elisa; Bosse, Denis; Cherubini, Antonello; Croce, Alessandro; Fagiano, Lorenzo; Fontana, Marco; Gambier, Adrian; Gkoumas, Konstantinos; Golightly, Christopher; Latour, Mikel Iribas; Jamieson, Peter; Kaldellis, John; Macdonald, Andrew; Murphy, Jimmy; Muskulus, Michael; Petrini, Francesco; Pigolotti, Luca; Rasmussen, Fleming; Schild, Philippe; Schmehl, Roland; Stavridou, Nafsika; Tande, John Olav Giæver; Taylor, Nigel A.S.; Telsnig, Thomas; Wiser, Ryan. (2019) Future emerging technologies in the wind power sector: a European perspective. Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews. vol. 113.
Ziegler, Lisa Sabine; Cosack, Nicolai; Kolios, Athanasios; Muskulus, Michael. (2019) Structural monitoring for lifetime extension of offshore wind monopiles: Verification of strain-based load extrapolation algorithm. Marine Structures. vol. 66.
Eiken, Odd; Muskulus, Michael. (2018) Fatigue Damage on Offshore Wind Turbines by a Cell Mapping Method. ISOPE - International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference. Proceedings. vol. 2018-June.
Oest, Jacob; Sandal, Kasper; Schafhirt, Sebastian; Stieng, Lars Einar; Muskulus, Michael. (2018) On gradient-based optimization of jacket structures for offshore wind turbines. Wind Energy. vol. 21 (11).
Schafhirt, Sebastian; Muskulus, Michael. (2018) Decoupled simulations of offshore wind turbines with reduced rotor loads and aerodynamic damping. Wind Energy Science. vol. 3.
Seyr, Helene; Barros, Anne; Muskulus, Michael. (2018) The Impact of Maintenance Duration on the Downtime of an Offshore Wind farm - Alternating Renewal Process. International Journal of COMADEM. vol. 21 (3).
Seyr, Helene; Muskulus, Michael. (2018) Using a Langevin model for the simulation of environmental conditions in an offshore wind farm. Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS). vol. 1104.
Stieng, Lars Einar; Muskulus, Michael. (2018) Reducing the number of load cases for fatigue damage assessment of offshore wind turbine support structures using a simple severity-based sampling method. Wind Energy Science. vol. 3.
Tu, Ying; Cheng, Zhengshun; Muskulus, Michael. (2018) A global slamming force model for offshore wind jacket structures. Marine Structures. vol. 60.
Tu, Ying; Cheng, Zhengshun; Muskulus, Michael. (2018) Global slamming forces on jacket structures for offshore wind applications. Marine Structures. vol. 58.
Ziegler, Lisa Sabine; Rhomberg, Matthieu Benoit; Muskulus, Michael. (2018) Design optimization with genetic algorithms: How does steel mass increase if offshore wind monopiles are designed for a longer service life?. Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS). vol. 1104.
Alagan Chella, Mayilvahanan; Bihs, Hans; Myrhaug, Dag; Muskulus, Michael. (2017) Breaking Solitary Waves and Breaking Wave Forces on a Vertically Mounted Slender Cylinder over an Impermeable Sloping Seabed. Journal of Ocean Engineering and Marine Energy. vol. 3 (1).

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