Designing Wind Turbines

Uwe Ritschel & Michael Beyer: Designing Wind Turbines, Engineering and Manufacturing Process in the Industrial Context January 2022, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-08549-9, Synthesis Lectures on Renewable Energy Technologies, Halifax, NS, Canada

When this book was completed, about 850 GW of wind power was installed worldwide, reflecting three decades of industry growth. Wind turbine design stands at the forefront of engineering: no other structure experiences such sizable and numerous load cycles, and the design process is inherently interdisciplinary. Having been responsible for several machines across different OEMs, the authors present an effective and economic approach to organizing such a design while respecting all challenges involved, illustrated through specific examples of existing designs.

Michael Beyer (ed.): CP Violation in Particle, Nuclear and Astrophysics January 2002, Lecture Notes in Physics, DOI: 10.1007/3-540-47895-7, ISBN: 978-3-540-43705-5

The exciting experiments of the BABAR and BELLE collaborations have now proven violation of CP symmetry in the neutral B system. This has renewed strong interest in the physics of CP violation. Novel experimental techniques and new highly intense neutron sources are now becoming available to further test the related time reversal symmetry. They will substantially lower the current limit on the neutron electric dipole moment and hence open up new tests of theoretical concepts beyond the Standard Model. These are strongly required to explain the decisive excess of matter versus antimatter in our Universe.

Michael Beyer, Thomas Mannel, Henning Schröder (Hrg.): Progress in Heavy Quark Physics, Proceedings of the IVth International Workshop Rostock, Sept 1997, Universitätsdruckerei Rostock 232/98

The physics of heavy quarks is one of the cornerstones of modern particle physics. Since the discovery of the charm quark in the mid-1970s, the field has continuously advanced our understanding of fundamental particles and forces. New experimental results to be confronted with recently developed theoretical methods keep the field rapidly progressing. Topics covered include: 1/m_Q expansion, QCD aspects, flavor mixing and oscillations, physics beyond the standard model, CP violation, flavor changing neutral currents, the spectrum of heavy hadrons, and heavy hadrons in hot and dense matter.

Michael Beyer, Hermann-Adolf Stempel (Hrg.): Welt, Umwelt und Ökologie Januar 1995, BELTZ Athenäum Beiträge zur Albert-Schweitzer-Forschung Band 3, ISBN 3895470597

An der Schwelle zum dritten Jahrtausend haben die vom Menschen verursachten Umweltveränderungen globales Ausmaß erreicht. Entscheidend ist dabei nicht nur die Größe, sondern auch das außergewöhnliche Tempo dieser Veränderungen. Ursachen sind Bevölkerungswachstum, Industrialisierung, Entwaldung und Verkehr, deren Folgen sich im Ozonloch und im Treibhauseffekt zeigen.

Die Bewältigung der Umweltkrise ist eine komplexe, interdisziplinäre Herausforderung, die alle Kulturen betrifft. Der Band geht auf ein Symposium zum Thema "Umweltkrise und Ethik" zurück, veranstaltet von der Wissenschaftlichen Albert-Schweitzer-Gesellschaft und der Universität Mainz, und soll zur kritischen Auseinandersetzung anregen.