Wake models play an integral role in wind farm layout optimization and operations where associated design and control decisions are only as good as the underlying wake model …
Wind farm design primarily depends on the variability of the wind turbine wake flows to the atmospheric wind conditions and the interaction between wakes. Physics-based models that …
The flow around the rotor of an axial turbine, operating in the wake of an upstream one, is resolved using large-eddy simulation on a cylindrical grid consisting of 3.8 billion points …
Wind turbine wake models typically require approximations, such as wake superposition and deflection models, to accurately describe wake physics. However, capturing the …
The actuator disk model (ADM) continues to be a popular wind turbine representation in large eddy simulations (LES) of large wind farms. Computational restrictions typically limit …
Engineering wake models provide the invaluable advantage to predict wind turbine wakes, power capture, and, in turn, annual energy production for an entire wind farm with very low …
Abstract Large-Eddy Simulation on a grid composed of about two billion points is utilized to characterize the turbulent wake of an axial-flow hydrokinetic turbine. The dominant role of …
Data-driven techniques can enable enhanced insights into wind turbine operations by efficiently extracting information from turbine data. This work outlines a data-driven strategy …
Wind farm power production is known to be significantly affected by turbine wakes. When mesoscale numerical models are used to predict power production, the turbine wakes …