Review of wake management techniques for wind turbines

DR Houck - Wind Energy, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The progression of wind turbine technology has led to wind turbines being incredibly
optimized machines often approaching their theoretical maximum production capabilities …

Collective wind farm operation based on a predictive model increases utility-scale energy production

MF Howland, JB Quesada, JJP Martínez… - Nature Energy, 2022 - nature.com
In wind farms, turbines are operated to maximize only their own power production. Individual
operation results in wake losses that reduce farm energy. Here we operate a wind turbine …

Turbulence and control of wind farms

CR Shapiro, GM Starke… - Annual Review of Control …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The dynamics of the turbulent atmospheric boundary layer play a fundamental role in wind
farm energy production, governing the velocity field that enters the farm as well as the …

[HTML][HTML] Results from a wake-steering experiment at a commercial wind plant: investigating the wind speed dependence of wake-steering performance

E Simley, P Fleming, N Girard, L Alloin… - Wind Energy …, 2021 - wes.copernicus.org
Wake steering is a wind farm control strategy in which upstream wind turbines are
misaligned with the wind to redirect their wakes away from downstream turbines, thereby …

The revised FLORIDyn model: Implementation of heterogeneous flow and the Gaussian wake

M Becker, B Ritter, B Doekemeijer… - Wind Energy …, 2022 - wes.copernicus.org
In this paper a new version of the FLOw Redirection and Induction Dynamics (FLORIDyn)
model is presented. The new model uses the three-dimensional parametric Gaussian …

Large-eddy simulation on the similarity between wakes of wind turbines with different yaw angles

Z Li, X Yang - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2021 - cambridge.org
This work is dedicated to studying the similarity between wakes of wind turbines with
different yaw angles and tip speed ratios under different turbulent inflows using large-eddy …

[HTML][HTML] Field experiment for open-loop yaw-based wake steering at a commercial onshore wind farm in Italy

BM Doekemeijer, S Kern, S Maturu… - Wind Energy …, 2021 - wes.copernicus.org
The concept of wake steering on wind farms for power maximization has gained significant
popularity over the last decade. Recent field trials described in the literature not only …

Modelling the induction, thrust and power of a yaw-misaligned actuator disk

KS Heck, HM Johlas, MF Howland - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - cambridge.org
Collective wind farm flow control, where wind turbines are operated in an individually
suboptimal strategy to benefit the aggregate farm, has demonstrated potential to reduce …

The influence of synoptic wind on land–sea breezes

M Allouche, E Bou‐Zeid… - Quarterly Journal of the …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Particularly challenging classes of heterogeneous surfaces are ones where strong
secondary circulations are generated, potentially dominating the flow dynamics. In this …

Floating offshore vertical axis wind turbines: Opportunities, challenges and way forward

A Arredondo-Galeana, F Brennan - Energies, 2021 - mdpi.com
The offshore wind sector is expanding to deep water locations through floating platforms.
This poses challenges to horizontal axis wind turbines (HAWTs) due to the ever growing …