Wind farm flow control: prospects and challenges

J Meyers, C Bottasso, K Dykes… - Wind Energy …, 2022 - wes.copernicus.org
Wind farm control has been a topic of research for more than two decades. It has been
identified as a core component of grand challenges in wind energy science to support …

Wind-turbine and wind-farm flows: a review

F Porté-Agel, M Bastankhah, S Shamsoddin - Boundary-layer meteorology, 2020 - Springer
Wind energy, together with other renewable energy sources, are expected to grow
substantially in the coming decades and play a key role in mitigating climate change and …

Predicting the drag of rough surfaces

D Chung, N Hutchins, MP Schultz… - Annual Review of Fluid …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Reliable full-scale prediction of drag due to rough wall-bounded turbulent fluid flow remains
a challenge. Currently, the uncertainty is at least 10%, with consequences, for example, on …

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 …

Grand challenges in the science of wind energy

P Veers, K Dykes, E Lantz, S Barth, CL Bottasso… - Science, 2019 - science.org
BACKGROUND A growing global population and an increasing demand for energy services
are expected to result in substantially greater deployment of clean energy sources. Wind …

Wind farm power optimization through wake steering

MF Howland, SK Lele, JO Dabiri - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Global power production increasingly relies on wind farms to supply low-carbon energy. The
recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report predicted that …

Review and evaluation of wake loss models for wind energy applications

CL Archer, A Vasel-Be-Hagh, C Yan, S Wu, Y Pan… - Applied Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Choosing an appropriate wake loss model (WLM) is a critical task in predicting power
production of a wind farm and performing a wind farm layout optimization. Due to their …

Comparison of wind farm large eddy simulations using actuator disk and actuator line models with wind tunnel experiments

RJAM Stevens, LA Martínez-Tossas, C Meneveau - Renewable energy, 2018 - Elsevier
We compare wind farm large eddy simulations with the EPFL wind tunnel measurement by
Chamorro and Porté-Agel (Bound-Lay. Meteorol. 136, 515 (2010) and Energies 4, 1916 …

Inflow turbulence generation methods

X Wu - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Research activities on inflow turbulence generation methods have been vigorous over the
past quarter century, accompanying advances in eddy-resolving computations of spatially …

Global available wind energy with physical and energy return on investment constraints

E Dupont, R Koppelaar, H Jeanmart - Applied Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Looking ahead to 2050 many countries intend to utilise wind as a prominent energy source.
Predicting a realistic maximum yield of onshore and offshore wind will play a key role in …