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 …

A tutorial on control-oriented modeling and control of wind farms

S Boersma, BM Doekemeijer… - 2017 American …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wind turbines are often sited together in wind farms as it is economically advantageous.
However, the wake inevitably created by every turbine will lead to a time-varying interaction …

Turbulence and control of wind farms

CR Shapiro, GM Starke… - Annual Review of Control …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The dynamics of the turbulent atmospheric boundary layer play a fundamental role in wind
farm energy production, governing the velocity field that enters the farm as well as the …

Nonlinear model predictive control of floating wind turbines with individual pitch control

S Raach, D Schlipf, F Sandner… - 2014 American …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work a nonlinear model predictive controller with individual pitch control for a floating
offshore wind turbine is presented. An aerodynamic model of the collective pitch control …

Lidar-enhanced wind turbine control: Past, present, and future

A Scholbrock, P Fleming, D Schlipf… - 2016 American …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The main challenges in harvesting energy from the wind arise from the unknown incoming
turbulent wind field. Balancing the competing interests of reduction in structural loads and …

Optimizing Lidars for wind turbine control applications—Results from the IEA wind task 32 Workshop

E Simley, H Fürst, F Haizmann, D Schlipf - Remote Sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
IEA Wind Task 32 serves as an international platform for the research community and
industry to identify and mitigate barriers to the use of lidars in wind energy applications. The …

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 …

Real‐time wind field reconstruction from LiDAR measurements using a dynamic wind model and state estimation

P Towers, BL Jones - Wind Energy, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The use of light detection and ranging (LiDAR) instruments offer many potential benefits to
the wind energy industry. Although much effort has been invested in developing such …

Wind field reconstruction from nacelle-mounted lidar short-range measurements

A Borraccino, D Schlipf, F Haizmann… - Wind Energy …, 2017 - wes.copernicus.org
Profiling nacelle lidars probe the wind at several heights and several distances upstream of
the rotor. The development of such lidar systems is relatively recent, and it is still unclear …

Reconstruction of turbulent flow fields from lidar measurements using large-eddy simulation

P Bauweraerts, J Meyers - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2021 - cambridge.org
We investigate the reconstruction of a turbulent flow field in the atmospheric boundary layer
from a time series of lidar measurements, using large-eddy simulations (LES) and a four …