Wind farm control‐Part I: A review on control system concepts and structures

LE Andersson, O Anaya‐Lara, JO Tande… - IET renewable …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Wind farm control design is a recently new area of research that has rapidly become a key
enabler for the development of large wind farm projects and their safe and efficient …

Wind farm power maximization through wake steering with a new multiple wake model for prediction of turbulence intensity

GW Qian, T Ishihara - Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
A new multiple wake model is developed for wind farm power prediction and wind farm
control. First, numerical simulations are conducted for two wind turbines under different …

[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 …

[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 …

Wind plants can impact long-term local atmospheric conditions

N Bodini, JK Lundquist, P Moriarty - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Long-term weather and climate observatories can be affected by the changing environments
in their vicinity, such as the growth of urban areas or changing vegetation. Wind plants can …

Floating platform effects on power generation in spar and semisubmersible wind turbines

HM Johlas, LA Martínez‐Tossas, MJ Churchfield… - Wind …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The design and financing of commercial‐scale floating offshore wind projects require a
better understanding of how power generation differs between newer floating turbines and …

Quantification of wake shape modulation and deflection for tilt and yaw misaligned wind turbines

J Bossuyt, R Scott, N Ali, RB Cal - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2021 - cambridge.org
Misaligned wind turbine rotors redirect the wake, and manipulate the wake shape by
introducing a counter-rotating vortex pair. This mechanism is of great interest for improving …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental investigation and analytical modelling of active yaw control for wind farm power optimization

H Zong, F Porte-Agel - Renewable Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
In this study, the physics and effectiveness of active yaw control under various wind
conditions are investigated systematically, based on wind tunnel experiments and a new …

Evaluation of the potential for wake steering for US land-based wind power plants

D Bensason, E Simley, O Roberts, P Fleming… - Journal of Renewable …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The wind power plant-wide control strategy known as wake steering involves the
misalignment of upstream turbines with the wind direction to deflect wakes away from …

A low-fidelity dynamic wind farm model for simulating time-varying wind conditions and floating platform motion

AC Kheirabadi, R Nagamune - Ocean Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper introduces a dynamic parametric wind farm model that is capable of simulating
floating wind turbine platform motion coupled with wake transport under time-varying wind …