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 …

Wind farm blockage and the consequences of neglecting its impact on energy production

J Bleeg, M Purcell, R Ruisi, E Traiger - Energies, 2018 - mdpi.com
Measurements taken before and after the commissioning of three wind farms reveal that the
wind speeds just upstream of each wind farm decrease relative to locations farther away …

[HTML][HTML] Offshore wind farm global blockage measured with scanning lidar

J Schneemann, F Theuer, A Rott… - Wind Energy …, 2021 - wes.copernicus.org
The objective of this paper was the experimental investigation of the accumulated induction
effect of a large offshore wind farm as a whole, ie the global-blockage effect, in relation to …

A wake modeling paradigm for wind farm design and control

CR Shapiro, GM Starke, C Meneveau, DF Gayme - Energies, 2019 - mdpi.com
Wake models play an integral role in wind farm layout optimization and operations where
associated design and control decisions are only as good as the underlying wake model …

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 …

A parametric large-eddy simulation study of wind-farm blockage and gravity waves in conventionally neutral boundary layers

L Lanzilao, J Meyers - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2024 - cambridge.org
We present a suite of large-eddy simulations (LES) of a wind farm operating in
conventionally neutral boundary layers. A fixed 1.6 GW wind farm is considered for 40 …

[HTML][HTML] TOSCA–an open-source, finite-volume, large-eddy simulation (LES) environment for wind farm flows

S Stipa, A Ajay, D Allaerts, J Brinkerhoff - Wind Energy Science, 2024 - wes.copernicus.org
The growing number and growing size of wind energy projects coupled with the rapid
growth in high-performance computing technology are driving researchers toward …

[HTML][HTML] Wind farm blockage in a stable atmospheric boundary layer

JMI Strickland, SN Gadde, RJAM Stevens - Renewable Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Wind farm blockage is the flow deceleration in front of a large turbine array, due to which the
first wind farm row produces less power than a corresponding solitary row. Understanding …

[HTML][HTML] The multi-scale coupled model: a new framework capturing wind farm–atmosphere interaction and global blockage effects

S Stipa, A Ajay, D Allaerts, J Brinkerhoff - Wind Energy Science, 2024 - wes.copernicus.org
The growth in the number and size of wind energy projects in the last decade has revealed
structural limitations in the current approach adopted by the wind industry to assess potential …