Intra-array wake meandering increases fatigue loading in downstream turbines and decreases farm total power output. In the case of floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) …
Individual pitch control has shown great capability of alleviating the oscillating loads experienced by wind turbine blades due to wind shear, atmospheric turbulence, yaw …
M Lejeune, M Moens, P Chatelain - Frontiers in Energy Research, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The development of new wake models is currently one of the key approaches envisioned to further improve the levelized cost of energy of wind power. While the wind energy literature …
Wind farm flow control aims at mitigating wake effects in order to maximize power production in wind farms. This work mostly focuses on the Helix strategy, which relies on individual pitch …
T David, L Eshbal, V Rinsky, R van Hout - Physical Review Fluids, 2020 - APS
A combination of time-resolved particle image velocimetry (PIV) and tomographic PIV was used to study the instantaneous three-dimensional vortex shedding as well as mean …
M Lejeune, M Moens, P Chatelain - Journal of Physics …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
This work extends the capabilities of an operational dynamic wake model to yawed cases. The proposed framework brings together flow sensing and Lagrangian flow modeling into a …
S Macrí, S Aubrun, A Leroy, N Girard - Wind Energy Science, 2021 - wes.copernicus.org
This article investigates the far wake response of a yawing upstream wind turbine and its impact on the global load variation in a downstream wind turbine. In order to represent …
With the development of floating wind farms, the understanding of the far wake becomes of utmost importance because it cannot only be based on the experience acquired on fixed …
M Moens, P Chatelain - Frontiers in Energy Research, 2022 - frontiersin.org
This work proposes a methodology aiming at simulating the whole wind farm behavior, from the wake phenomena to the wind turbine fatigue loads, in a both accurate and efficient way …