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 study of the wind turbine interaction with a boundary-layer flow: Upwind region, turbine performance, and wake region

M Bastankhah, F Porté-Agel - Physics of Fluids, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
Comprehensive wind tunnel experiments were carried out to study the interaction of a
turbulent boundary layer with a wind turbine operating under different tip-speed ratios and …

Aerodynamic measurements on wind turbines

JG Schepers, SJ Schreck - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This article reviews the aerodynamic measurement programs on wind turbines that have
been performed in the last decades. It is largely based on results from four projects carried …

The aerodynamic interference effects of a floating offshore wind turbine experiencing platform pitching and yawing motions

TT Tran, DH Kim - Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology, 2015 - Springer
Generally, a floating offshore wind turbine experiences larger motions than onshore or
ground fixed wind turbines because of its free motions of the platform on the water. The …

Digital tuft analysis of stall on operational wind turbines

N Swytink‐Binnema, DA Johnson - Wind Energy, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Operational wind turbines are exposed to dynamic inflow conditions because of, for
instance, atmospheric turbulence and wind shear. In order to understand the resulting three …

HAWT near‐wake aerodynamics, Part I: axial flow conditions

W Haans, T Sant, G van Kuik… - Wind Energy: An …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
An improved physical understanding of the rotor aerodynamics of a horizontal axis wind
turbine (HAWT) is required to reduce the uncertainties associated with today's design codes …

The behavior of fixed point iteration and Newton-Raphson methods in solving the blade element momentum equations

M McWilliam, C Crawford - Wind Engineering, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
There is a substantial body of ongoing research improving the Blade Element Momentum
(BEM) theory and applying it to the optimization of wind turbine rotors. Both of these …

Experimentally observed effects of yaw misalignment on the inflow in the rotor plane

W Haans, GAM van Kuik… - Journal of Physics …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
Near-wake measurements, focussed on yawed flow conditions, are conducted on a wind
turbine rotor model in an open jet wind tunnel. Tip vortex center locations and phase-locked …

[HTML][HTML] Numerical analysis of horizontal-axis wind turbine characteristics in yawed conditions

S Masami - Open Journal of Fluid Dynamics, 2012 - scirp.org
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling and experiments have both advantages and
disadvantages. Doing both can be complementary, and we can expect more effective …

Interaction between the atmospheric boundary layer and a standalone wind turbine in Gansu—Part I: Field measurement

DS Li, T Guo, YR Li, JS Hu, Z Zheng, Y Li, YJ Di… - Science China Physics …, 2018 - Springer
Experiments and numerical simulations of the wake field behind a horizontal-axis wind
turbine are carried out to investigate the interaction between the atmospheric boundary layer …