A review of high-fidelity computational fluid dynamics for floating offshore wind turbines

S Xu, Y Xue, W Zhao, D Wan - Journal of Marine Science and …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The design and development of floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) is an attractive
issue in the wind energy harvesting field. In this study, the research related to the high …

Verification and validation of CFD simulations of the NTNU BT1 wind turbine

M Ye, HC Chen, A Koop - Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial …, 2023 - Elsevier
Results obtained from CFD simulations are sensitive to many numerical settings, such as
grid spacing, time increment, turbulence models, etc. Therefore, rigorous quantification of …

[HTML][HTML] Wake and power prediction of horizontal-axis wind farm under yaw-controlled conditions with machine learning

ME Nakhchi, SW Naung, M Rahmati - Energy Conversion and Management, 2023 - Elsevier
The main objective of this study is to employ the Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost)
machine learning algorithm to predict the power, wake, and turbulent characteristics of …

Effect of turbine nacelle and tower on the near wake of a utility-scale wind turbine

A Abraham, T Dasari, J Hong - Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial …, 2019 - Elsevier
Super-large-scale particle image velocimetry using natural snowfall is used to investigate
the influence of nacelle and tower generated flow structures on the near-wake of an …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Aerodynamic analysis and static stability analysis of Manned/unmanned distributed propulsion aircrafts using actuator methods

D Kim, Y Lee, S Oh, Y Park, J Choi, D Park - Journal of Wind Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
The development of personal aerial vehicles (PAVs) using electric power distributed
propulsion methods is rapidly growing. As the aerodynamic performance and flight stability …

Characteristics and modelling of wake for aligned multiple turbines based on numerical simulation

R Zhang, Z Xin, G Huang, B Yan, X Zhou… - Journal of Wind …, 2022 - Elsevier
Wind energy has become one of the most commercially prospective renewable energies.
However, the wake effect of wind turbine can reduce the power generation efficiency and …

Effects of continuously changing inlet wind direction on near-to-far wake characteristics behind wind turbines over flat terrain

T Uchida, Y Gagnon - Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial …, 2022 - Elsevier
The wake characteristics of a utility-scale wind turbine under realistic atmospheric boundary
layer conditions are affected by the continuously changing wind direction arriving at the wind …

High-fidelity wind farm simulation methodology with experimental validation

AS Hsieh, KA Brown, NB DeVelder, TG Herges… - Journal of Wind …, 2021 - Elsevier
The complexity and associated uncertainties involved with atmospheric-turbine-wake
interactions produce challenges for accurate wind farm predictions of generator power and …

Research on the power capture and wake characteristics of a wind turbine based on a modified actuator line model

F Xue, H Duan, C Xu, X Han, Y Shangguan, T Li, Z Fen - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
On a wind farm, the wake has an important impact on the performance of the wind turbines.
For example, the wake of an upstream wind turbine affects the blade load and output power …