Wind tunnel investigation of the aerodynamic response of two 15 MW floating wind turbines

A Fontanella, A Facchinetti, S Di Carlo… - Wind Energy Science …, 2022 - wes.copernicus.org
The aerodynamics of floating turbines is complicated by large motions which are permitted
by the floating foundation, and the interaction between turbine, wind and wake is not yet fully …

Far-wake meandering of a wind turbine model with imposed motions: an experimental S-PIV analysis

N Belvasi, B Conan, B Schliffke, L Perret, C Desmond… - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
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) …

A reinforcement‐learning approach for individual pitch control

M Coquelet, L Bricteux, M Moens, P Chatelain - Wind Energy, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Individual pitch control has shown great capability of alleviating the oscillating loads
experienced by wind turbine blades due to wind shear, atmospheric turbulence, yaw …

[HTML][HTML] A meandering-capturing wake model coupled to rotor-based flow-sensing for operational wind farm flow prediction

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 …

Dynamic individual pitch control for wake mitigation: Why does the helix handedness in the wake matter?

M Coquelet, J Gutknecht… - Journal of Physics …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

Flow measurements in the near wake of a smooth sphere and one mimicking a pine cone

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 …

Extension and validation of an operational dynamic wake model to yawed configurations

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental investigation of wind turbine wake and load dynamics during yaw maneuvers

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 …

Experimental Analysis of the Wake Meandering of a Floating Wind Turbine under Imposed Surge Motion

LP Garcia, B Conan, S Aubrun, L Perret… - Journal of Physics …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

Correlations between wake phenomena and fatigue loads within large wind farms: A large-eddy simulation study

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 …