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 …

ExaWind: Open‐source CFD for hybrid‐RANS/LES geometry‐resolved wind turbine simulations in atmospheric flows

A Sharma, MJ Brazell, G Vijayakumar… - Wind …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Predictive high‐fidelity modeling of wind turbines with computational fluid dynamics,
wherein turbine geometry is resolved in an atmospheric boundary layer, is important to …

Overset meshes for incompressible flows: On preserving accuracy of underlying discretizations

A Sharma, S Ananthan, J Sitaraman, S Thomas… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
This study on overset meshes for incompressible-flow simulations is motivated by accurate
prediction of wind farm aerodynamics involving large motions and deformations of …

Aerodynamic behavior of a floating offshore wind turbine

C Lienard, R Boisard, C Daudin - AIAA Journal, 2020 - arc.aiaa.org
The flowfield around the rotor blades of a wind turbine is extremely complex due to the
occurrence of several aerodynamic phenomena. It is all the more true for floating offshore …

Coupled aero-hydro-mooring dynamic analysis of floating offshore wind turbine under blade pitch motion

X Feng, J Fang, Y Lin, B Chen, D Li, H Liu, Y Gu - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Accurate prediction of the dynamic responses of the floating offshore wind turbine (FOWT)
under the blade pitch motion is quite challenging because of the strong nonlinear effects. In …

Machine learning enables national assessment of wind plant controls with implications for land use

D Harrison‐Atlas, RN King, A Glaws - Wind Energy, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
As deployment of wind energy continues to expand, computationally efficient tools for
predicting wind plant performance over a wide range of layout designs, technology …

An octree-based, cartesian navier–stokes solver for modern cluster architectures

D Jude, J Sitaraman, A Wissink - The Journal of Supercomputing, 2022 - Springer
Adaptive Cartesian mesh approaches have proven useful for multi-scale applications where
particular features can be finely resolved within a large solution domain. Traditional patch …

Investigation of wake characteristics of floating offshore wind turbine with control strategy using actuator curve embedding method

L Yang, K Liao, Q Ma, G Ma, H Sun - Renewable Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
The wake characteristics of a variable-speed pitch-regulated floating offshore wind turbine
(FOWT) under surge motions are studied using a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) …

Influence of turbulence intensity on the aerodynamic performance of wind turbines based on the fluid-structure coupling method

X Zheng, Y Yao, Z Hu, Z Yu, S Hu - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
The deformation and vibration of wind turbine blades in turbulent environment cannot be
ignored; therefore, in order to better ensure the safety of wind turbine blades, the study of air …

A robust overset assembly method for multiple overlapping bodies

Z Hu, G Xu, Y Shi - … Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A robust overset assembly method allowing for multiple overlapping bodies is presented.
This method extends the overset assembly method to deal with the interference between …