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 …

Review of atmospheric stability estimations for wind power applications

CP Albornoz, MAE Soberanis, VR Rivera… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Wind energy has experienced rapid growth in the energy market over the last two decades,
and this growth would not have been possible without the development of wind turbines that …

Wind tunnel study of the wind turbine interaction with a boundary-layer flow: Upwind region, turbine performance, and wake region

M Bastankhah, F Porté-Agel - Physics of Fluids, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
Comprehensive wind tunnel experiments were carried out to study the interaction of a
turbulent boundary layer with a wind turbine operating under different tip-speed ratios and …

EMCO-based optimal layout design of hybrid wind-wave energy converters array

B Yang, J Duan, Y Yan, B Liu, J Huang… - … and Control of …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Marine renewable energy, combining wave energy converters (WECs) and floating wind
turbines (FWTs) into hybrid wave-wind energy converters (HWWECs), garners significant …

On the importance of wind turbine wake boundary to wind energy and environmental impact

Z Fan, S Li, Z Gao, L Zhang, X Zheng, W Zhu… - Energy Conversion and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The increase in global wind power installations has also increased the wind turbine density
in wind farms. This has made the wake interactions between neighbouring turbines more …

High-fidelity CFD simulations for the wake characteristics of the NTNU BT1 wind turbine

M Ye, HC Chen, A Koop - Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
In this work, we present the results of the wake characteristics of a model-scale horizontal-
axis wind turbine (HAWT) obtained from high-fidelity CFD simulations. A thorough …

[HTML][HTML] Wind farm blockage in a stable atmospheric boundary layer

JMI Strickland, SN Gadde, RJAM Stevens - Renewable Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Wind farm blockage is the flow deceleration in front of a large turbine array, due to which the
first wind farm row produces less power than a corresponding solitary row. Understanding …

Flow adjustment inside and around large finite-size wind farms

KL Wu, F Porté-Agel - Energies, 2017 - mdpi.com
In this study, large-eddy simulations are performed to investigate the flow inside and around
large finite-size wind farms in conventionally-neutral atmospheric boundary layers. Special …

Experimental study of bathymetry generated turbulence on tidal turbine behaviour

B Gaurier, M Ikhennicheu, G Germain, P Druault - Renewable Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
In high flow velocity areas like those suitable for tidal applications, turbulence intensity is
high and flow variations may have a major impact on tidal turbine behaviour. A three-bladed …

Revealing inflow and wake conditions of a 6MW floating turbine

N Angelou, J Mann… - Wind Energy Science …, 2023 - wes.copernicus.org
We investigate the characteristics of the inflow and the wake of a 6MW floating wind turbine
from the Hywind Scotland offshore wind farm, the world's first floating wind farm. We use two …