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 tunnel tests for wind turbines: A state-of-the-art review

R He, H Sun, X Gao, H Yang - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Wind turbine (WT) experiments in wind tunnels can benefit the efficient utilization of wind
energy in many aspects, such as the testing of new products, the validation of numerical …

Performance characterization and placement of a marine hydrokinetic turbine in a tidal channel under boundary proximity and blockage effects

N Kolekar, A Banerjee - Applied Energy, 2015 - Elsevier
Marine hydrokinetic turbine, when operating in a shallow channel is subjected to the
boundary proximity effects from a deformable free surface on top and the channel bottom. A …

Wind turbine wake properties: Comparison between a non-rotating simplified wind turbine model and a rotating model

S Aubrun, S Loyer, PE Hancock, P Hayden - Journal of Wind Engineering …, 2013 - Elsevier
Experimental results on the wake properties of a non-rotating simplified wind turbine model,
based on the actuator disc concept, and a rotating model, a three-blade wind turbine, are …

Natural snowfall reveals large-scale flow structures in the wake of a 2.5-MW wind turbine

J Hong, M Toloui, LP Chamorro, M Guala… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
To improve power production and structural reliability of wind turbines, there is a pressing
need to understand how turbines interact with the atmospheric boundary layer. However …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental study of the mean wake of a tidal stream rotor in a shallow turbulent flow

T Stallard, T Feng, PK Stansby - Journal of Fluids and Structures, 2015 - Elsevier
The mean wake of a three-bladed horizontal axis tidal stream turbine operating at maximum
power coefficient has been investigated experimentally in a wide flume with width 11 times …

Critical evaluation of Wind Turbines' analytical wake models

JK Kaldellis, P Triantafyllou, P Stinis - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
The wind energy sector has faced remarkable growth during the last twenty years in view of
tackling the global energy consumption rise and the adverse effects of fossil fuels on …

Effects of blade number on the aerodynamic performance and wake characteristics of a small horizontal-axis wind turbine

H Zhang, J Wen, J Zhan, D Xin - Energy Conversion and Management, 2022 - Elsevier
Small-scale horizontal-axis wind turbines (SHAWTs) are powerful equipments for wind
energy conversion. Furthermore, the wake vortices generated by SHAWTs are used in …

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 …