Publications

Publications

All our publications can be found in the Norwegian Research Information Repository

The list below are some key works, sorted according to topic.

Wind Energy

Strategy & Technology review

• Grand challenges in the science of wind energy
  Veers et al (2019): Science 366: eaau2027

Structural monitoring and lifetime extension

• Brief communication: Structural health monitoring for lifetime extension of offshore wind monopiles: can strain measurements at one level tell us everything?
  Ziegler LS, Smolka U, Cosack N, Muskulus M (2017): Wind Energy Science 2: 469-476

Support structure optimization

• Reliability-based design optimization of offshore wind turbine support structures using analytical sensitivies and factorized uncertainty moderling Stieng LES, Muskulus M (2020): Wind Energy Science 5: 171-198

• On gradient‐based optimization of jacket structures for offshore wind turbines
  Oest J, Sandal K, Schafhirt S, Stieng LES, Muskulus M (2018): Wind Energy 21: 953-967

• Analytical sensitivities for statistically extrapolated extreme load constraints in structural optimization
  Stieng LES, Muskulus M (2017): Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization 56: 1477–1491

• Analytical gradient-based optimization of offshore wind turbine substructures under fatigue and extreme loads
  Chew KH, Tai K, Ng EYK, Muskulus M (2016): Marine Structures 47: 23-41

• Two-stage local optimization approach of lattice type support structures for offshore wind turbines
  Schafhirt S, Zwick D, Muskulus M (2016): Ocean Engineering 117: 163-173

• Simplified fatigue load assessment in offshore wind turbine structural analysis
  Zwick D, Muskulus M (2016): Wind Energy 19: 265-278

• Pareto-optimal evaluation of ultimate limit states in offshore wind turbine structural analysis
  Muskulus M (2015): Energies 8: 14026-14039
  NOTE: MDPI has unfortunately not been able to publish the electronic supplement that was submitted with the paper. It contains functions in the R programming language and code for preparing the figures in the paper. You can download it here.

• Design optimization of wind turbine structures – a review
  Muskulus M, Schafhirt S (2014): Journal of Ocean and Wind Energy 1: 12-22

• Mooring system optimization for floating wind turbines using frequency domain analysis
  Brommundt M, Krause LJ, Merz KO, Muskulus M (2012): Energy Procedia 24: 289-296

• Reliability-based design of wind turbine support structures
  International symposium on reliability of engineering systems (SRES2015)

Wave forces

• A global slamming force model for offshore wind jacket structures
  Tu Y, Cheng Z, Muskulus M (2018): Marine Structures 60: 201-217
• Long-term research challenges in wind energy - a research agenda by the European Academy of Wind Energy van Kuik GAM, Peinke J, Nijssen R, Lekou D, Mann J, Sørensen JN, et al. (2016): Wind Energy Science 1: 1-39

Nonlinear dynamics

• Multi-Scale Entropy Analysis as a Method for Time-Series Analysis of Climate Data
  Balzter H, Tate N, Kaduk J, Harper D, Page S, Morrison R, Muskulus M, Jones PD (2015): Climate 3: 227-240
• Wasserstein distances in the analysis of time series and dynamical systems
  Muskulus M, Verduyn-Lunel S: Physica D 240: 45-58
• Fluctuations and determinism of respiratory impedance in asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
  Muskulus M, Slats A, Sterk P, Verduyn-Lunel S (2010): Journal of Applied Physiology 109: 1582-1591
• The 3D Moore-Rayleigh test for the quantitative groupwise comparison of MR brain images Scheenstra AEH, Muskulus M, Staring M, van den Maagdenberg AMJV, Verduyn-Lunel S, Reiber JHC, van der Weerd L, Dijkstra J (2009): in IPMI 2009: Information Processing in Medical Imaging pp 564-575

Technical reports

We have written a number of technical reports / technical notes that can be found and downloaded here:

• WTG-R1/2026: Enhancing fatigue lifetime through initial investments — a case in wind energy

Blog posts

The following blog posts can be downloaded in PDF format:

• Copyright for scientists — PDF version