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 …

Artificial intelligence and machine learning in grid connected wind turbine control systems: A comprehensive review

NO Farrar, MH Ali, D Dasgupta - Energies, 2023 - mdpi.com
As grid-connected wind farms become more common in the modern power system, the
question of how to maximize wind power generation while limiting downtime has been a …

Model‐free closed‐loop wind farm control using reinforcement learning with recursive least squares

J Liew, T Göçmen, WH Lio, GC Larsen - Wind Energy, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Wind farms experience significant power losses due to wake interactions between turbines.
Research shows that wake steering can alleviate these losses by redirecting the flow …

[HTML][HTML] Reinforcement learning for wind-farm flow control: Current state and future actions

M Abkar, N Zehtabiyan-Rezaie, A Iosifidis - Theoretical and Applied …, 2023 - Elsevier
Wind-farm flow control stands at the forefront of grand challenges in wind-energy science.
The central issue is that current algorithms are based on simplified models and, thus, fall …

A database of hourly wind speed and modeled generation for US wind plants based on three meteorological models

D Millstein, S Jeong, A Ancell, R Wiser - Scientific Data, 2023 - nature.com
In 2022, wind generation accounted for~ 10% of total electricity generation in the United
States. As wind energy accounts for a greater portion of total energy, understanding …

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 …

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 …

A new coupling of a GPU‐resident large‐eddy simulation code with a multiphysics wind turbine simulation tool

E Taschner, M Folkersma, LA Martínez‐Tossas… - Wind …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The development of new wind farm control strategies can benefit from combined analysis of
flow dynamics in the farm and the behavior of individual turbines within one simulation …

[HTML][HTML] Wind tunnel investigations of an individual pitch control strategy for wind farm power optimization

FV Mühle, FM Heckmeier, F Campagnolo… - Wind Energy …, 2024 - wes.copernicus.org
This article presents the results of an experimental wind tunnel study which investigates a
new control strategy named Helix. The Helix control employs individual pitch control for …