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 …

Wind turbine wake control strategies: A review and concept proposal

R Nash, R Nouri, A Vasel-Be-Hagh - Energy Conversion and Management, 2021 - Elsevier
A wind farm's overall power production is significantly less than its nominal power, defined
as the sum of the wind turbines' rated outputs. The primary cause for this significant loss is …

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 …

Wind farm power optimization through wake steering

MF Howland, SK Lele, JO Dabiri - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Global power production increasingly relies on wind farms to supply low-carbon energy. The
recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report predicted that …

Field test of wake steering at an offshore wind farm

P Fleming, J Annoni, JJ Shah, L Wang… - Wind Energy …, 2017 - wes.copernicus.org
In this paper, a field test of wake-steering control is presented. The field test is the result of a
collaboration between the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Envision …

A quantitative review of wind farm control with the objective of wind farm power maximization

AC Kheirabadi, R Nagamune - Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial …, 2019 - Elsevier
This article presents a review of control strategies for maximizing power production within
wind farms. Discussions focus on three notable concepts; power de-rating, yaw-based wake …

[HTML][HTML] Wake structure in actuator disk models of wind turbines in yaw under uniform inflow conditions

MF Howland, J Bossuyt, LA Martínez-Tossas… - Journal of Renewable …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Reducing wake losses in wind farms by deflecting the wakes through turbine yawing has
been shown to be a feasible wind farm controls approach. Nonetheless, the effectiveness of …

A tutorial on control-oriented modeling and control of wind farms

S Boersma, BM Doekemeijer… - 2017 American …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wind turbines are often sited together in wind farms as it is economically advantageous.
However, the wake inevitably created by every turbine will lead to a time-varying interaction …

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 …

Maximization of the annual energy production of wind power plants by optimization of layout and yaw‐based wake control

P Gebraad, JJ Thomas, A Ning, P Fleming… - Wind Energy, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents a wind plant modeling and optimization tool that enables the
maximization of wind plant annual energy production (AEP) using yaw‐based wake steering …