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 …

Experimental and theoretical study of wind turbine wakes in yawed conditions

M Bastankhah, F Porté-Agel - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2016 - cambridge.org
This work is dedicated to systematically studying and predicting the wake characteristics of a
yawed wind turbine immersed in a turbulent boundary layer. To achieve this goal, wind …

Wind turbine power modelling and optimization using artificial neural network with wind field experimental data

H Sun, C Qiu, L Lu, X Gao, J Chen, H Yang - Applied Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
The wake effect is a major and complex problem in the wind power industry. Wake steering,
such as controlling yaw angles of wind turbines, is a proven approach to mitigate the wake …

Wind turbine wake control strategies: A review and concept proposal

R Nash, R Nouri, A Vasel-Be-Hagh - Energy Conversion and Management, 2021 - Elsevier
A wind farm's overall power production is significantly less than its nominal power, defined
as the sum of the wind turbines' rated outputs. The primary cause for this significant loss is …

Wind plant power optimization through yaw control using a parametric model for wake effects—a CFD simulation study

PMO Gebraad, FW Teeuwisse… - Wind …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
This article presents a wind plant control strategy that optimizes the yaw settings of wind
turbines for improved energy production of the whole wind plant by taking into account wake …

Artificial intelligence-aided wind plant optimization for nationwide evaluation of land use and economic benefits of wake steering

D Harrison-Atlas, A Glaws, RN King, E Lantz - Nature Energy, 2024 - nature.com
If clean energy pathways are to harness massive increases in wind power, innovations with
broad geographic viability will be needed to support buildout in diverse locations. However …

A quantitative review of wind farm control with the objective of wind farm power maximization

AC Kheirabadi, R Nagamune - Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial …, 2019 - Elsevier
This article presents a review of control strategies for maximizing power production within
wind farms. Discussions focus on three notable concepts; power de-rating, yaw-based wake …

Field test of wake steering at an offshore wind farm

P Fleming, J Annoni, JJ Shah, L Wang… - Wind Energy …, 2017 - wes.copernicus.org
In this paper, a field test of wake-steering control is presented. The field test is the result of a
collaboration between the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Envision …

A machine learning-based fatigue loads and power prediction method for wind turbines under yaw control

R He, H Yang, S Sun, L Lu, H Sun, X Gao - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Yaw control is one of the most promising active wake control strategies to maximize the total
power generation of wind farms. Meanwhile, structural performance needs to be considered …