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 …

[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 …

Continued results from a field campaign of wake steering applied at a commercial wind farm: Part 2

P Fleming, J King, E Simley, J Roadman… - Wind Energy …, 2020 - wes.copernicus.org
This paper presents the results of a field campaign investigating the performance of wake
steering applied at a section of a commercial wind farm. It is the second phase of the study in …

Study of three wake control strategies for power maximization of offshore wind farms with different layouts

B Li, J He, M Ge, H Ma, B Du, H Yang, Y Liu - Energy Conversion and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The wake regulation by cooperative yaw control, axis induction control, or their combination
can significantly improve the total power output of wind farms. However, a comprehensive …

[HTML][HTML] Design and analysis of a wake steering controller with wind direction variability

E Simley, P Fleming, J King - Wind Energy Science, 2020 - wes.copernicus.org
Wind farm control strategies are being developed to mitigate wake losses in wind farms,
increasing energy production. Wake steering is a type of wind farm control in which a wind …

The cost of floating offshore wind energy in California between 2019 and 2032

P Beiter, W Musial, P Duffy, A Cooperman, M Shields… - 2020 - osti.gov
California's energy planning is centered around meeting the emissions reduction and
renewable energy requirements of Senate Bill 350 by 2030. However, state power system …

Addressing deep array effects and impacts to wake steering with the cumulative-curl wake model

CJ Bay, P Fleming, B Doekemeijer… - Wind Energy …, 2022 - wes.copernicus.org
Wind farm design and analysis heavily rely on computationally efficient engineering models
that are evaluated many times to find an optimal solution. A recent article compared the state …

A vortex sheet based analytical model of the curled wake behind yawed wind turbines

M Bastankhah, CR Shapiro, S Shamsoddin… - Journal of Fluid …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Motivated by the need for compact descriptions of the evolution of non-classical wakes
behind yawed wind turbines, we develop an analytical model to predict the shape of curled …

[HTML][HTML] Optimal closed-loop wake steering–Part 1: Conventionally neutral atmospheric boundary layer conditions

MF Howland, AS Ghate, SK Lele… - Wind Energy …, 2020 - wes.copernicus.org
Strategies for wake loss mitigation through the use of dynamic closed-loop wake steering
are investigated using large eddy simulations of conventionally neutral atmospheric …