A review of physical and numerical modeling techniques for horizontal-axis wind turbine wakes

MM Amiri, M Shadman, SF Estefen - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2024 - Elsevier
Wake effects within a wind farm are identified as one of the main factors impacting wind farm
power production and fatigue loading on wind turbines' structural elements. An efficient …

[HTML][HTML] Review of computational fluid dynamics in the design of floating offshore wind turbines

R Haider, X Li, W Shi, Z Lin, Q Xiao, H Zhao - Energies, 2024 - mdpi.com
The growing interest in renewable energy solutions for sustainable development has
significantly advanced the design and analysis of floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) …

Assessment of yaw-control effects on wind turbine-wake interaction: A coupled unsteady vortex lattice method and curled wake model analysis

W Han, H Kim, E Son, S Lee - Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial …, 2023 - Elsevier
Downstream wind turbines in a wind farm are affected by the wake of the upstream turbine.
Therefore, wake steering has been introduced to alleviate the wake effect by yawing the …

On the performance of the helix wind farm control approach in the conventionally neutral atmospheric boundary layer

E Taschner, AAW van Vondelen… - Journal of Physics …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The performance of wind farms can substantially increase when their individual turbines
deviate from their own greedy control strategy and instead also take into account …

Characterization of wind turbine flow through nacelle-mounted lidars: a review

S Letizia, P Brugger, N Bodini… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
This article provides a comprehensive review of the most recent advances in the planning,
execution, and analysis of inflow and wake measurements from nacelle-mounted wind …

Modeling and investigation of the effect of a wind turbine on the atmospheric boundary layer

VN Kovalnogov, RV Fedorov, AV Chukalin… - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
Wind power engineering is one of the environmentally safe areas of energy and certainly
makes a significant contribution to the fight against CO 2 emissions. The study of the air …

A Review of Numerical and Physical Methods for Analyzing the Coupled Hydro–Aero–Structural Dynamics of Floating Wind Turbine Systems

M Maali Amiri, M Shadman, SF Estefen - Journal of Marine Science and …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Recently, more wind turbine systems have been installed in deep waters far from the coast.
Several concepts of floating wind turbine systems (FWTS) have been developed, among …

Fluid-dynamic mechanisms underlying wind turbine wake control with Strouhal-timed actuation

LC Cheung, KA Brown, DR Houck, NB Develder - Energies, 2024 - mdpi.com
A reduction in wake effects in large wind farms through wake-aware control has
considerable potential to improve farm efficiency. This work examines the success of several …

Validation of a Large-Eddy Simulation Approach for Prediction of the Ground Roughness Influence on Wind Turbine Wakes

VP Stein, HJ Kaltenbach - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
The ability of high-fidelity computational fluid mechanics simulation to quantitatively predict
the influence of ground roughness on the evolution of the wake of a three-bladed horizontal …

Comparison of a mid-fidelity free vortex wake method to a high-fidelity actuator line model large eddy simulation for wind turbine wake simulations

DR Houck, N deVelder, CL Kelley - Journal of Physics …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The need for mid-fidelity wind turbine simulations is increasing due to their balance of
accuracy and computational efficiency. A common form of mid-fidelity code is the free wake …