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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Estimating the wake deflection downstream of a wind turbine in different atmospheric stabilities: an LES study

L Vollmer, G Steinfeld, D Heinemann… - Wind Energy …, 2016 - wes.copernicus.org
An intentional yaw misalignment of wind turbines is currently discussed as one possibility to
increase the overall energy yield of wind farms. The idea behind this control is to decrease …

Dynamic strategies for yaw and induction control of wind farms based on large-eddy simulation and optimization

W Munters, J Meyers - Energies, 2018 - mdpi.com
In wind farms, wakes originating from upstream turbines cause reduced energy extraction
and increased loading variability in downstream rows. The prospect of mitigating these …

The helix approach: Using dynamic individual pitch control to enhance wake mixing in wind farms

JA Frederik, BM Doekemeijer, SP Mulders… - Wind …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Wind farm control using dynamic concepts is a research topic that is receiving an increasing
amount of interest. The main concept of this approach is that dynamic variations of the wind …

Wind farm control‐Part I: A review on control system concepts and structures

LE Andersson, O Anaya‐Lara, JO Tande… - IET renewable …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Wind farm control design is a recently new area of research that has rapidly become a key
enabler for the development of large wind farm projects and their safe and efficient …

Continued results from a field campaign of wake steering applied at a commercial wind farm: Part 2

P Fleming, J King, E Simley, J Roadman… - Wind Energy …, 2020 - wes.copernicus.org
This paper presents the results of a field campaign investigating the performance of wake
steering applied at a section of a commercial wind farm. It is the second phase of the study in …