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 and wind-farm flows: a review

F Porté-Agel, M Bastankhah, S Shamsoddin - Boundary-layer meteorology, 2020 - Springer
Wind energy, together with other renewable energy sources, are expected to grow
substantially in the coming decades and play a key role in mitigating climate change and …

Flow structure and turbulence in wind farms

RJAM Stevens, C Meneveau - Annual review of fluid mechanics, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Similar to other renewable energy sources, wind energy is characterized by a low power
density. Hence, for wind energy to make considerable contributions to the world's overall …

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 …

Boundary-layer development and gravity waves in conventionally neutral wind farms

D Allaerts, J Meyers - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2017 - cambridge.org
While neutral atmospheric boundary layers are rare over land, they occur frequently over
sea. In these cases they are almost always of the conventionally neutral type, in which the …

The influence of synoptic wind on land–sea breezes

M Allouche, E Bou‐Zeid… - Quarterly Journal of the …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Particularly challenging classes of heterogeneous surfaces are ones where strong
secondary circulations are generated, potentially dominating the flow dynamics. In this …

Gravity waves and wind-farm efficiency in neutral and stable conditions

D Allaerts, J Meyers - Boundary-layer meteorology, 2018 - Springer
We use large-eddy simulations (LES) to investigate the impact of stable stratification on
gravity-wave excitation and energy extraction in a large wind farm. To this end, the …

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 …

Big wind power: seven questions for turbulence research

C Meneveau - Journal of Turbulence, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The accelerating growth of wind energy in recent years mandates improved understanding
of wind turbine, wind farm and atmospheric turbulence interactions. Fluid turbulence plays a …

Flow adjustment inside and around large finite-size wind farms

KL Wu, F Porté-Agel - Energies, 2017 - mdpi.com
In this study, large-eddy simulations are performed to investigate the flow inside and around
large finite-size wind farms in conventionally-neutral atmospheric boundary layers. Special …