Wind farm power optimization through wake steering

MF Howland, SK Lele, JO Dabiri - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2019 - pnas.org
Global power production increasingly relies on wind farms to supply low-carbon energy. The
recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report predicted that …

[HTML][HTML] Control-oriented model for secondary effects of wake steering

J King, P Fleming, R King… - Wind Energy …, 2021 - wes.copernicus.org
This paper presents a model to incorporate the secondary effects of wake steering in large
arrays of turbines. Previous models have focused on the aerodynamic interaction of wake …

Continued results from a field campaign of wake steering applied at a commercial wind farm: Part 2

P Fleming, J King, E Simley, J Roadman… - Wind Energy …, 2020 - wes.copernicus.org
This paper presents the results of a field campaign investigating the performance of wake
steering applied at a section of a commercial wind farm. It is the second phase of the study in …

[HTML][HTML] The curled wake model: a three-dimensional and extremely fast steady-state wake solver for wind plant flows

LA Martínez-Tossas, J King, E Quon… - Wind Energy …, 2021 - wes.copernicus.org
Wind turbine wake models typically require approximations, such as wake superposition
and deflection models, to accurately describe wake physics. However, capturing the …

A time‐varying formulation of the curled wake model within the FAST. Farm framework

E Branlard, LA Martínez‐Tossas, J Jonkman - Wind Energy, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In this article, we present a time‐varying formulation of the curled wake model that we
implemented in FAST. Farm. The curled wake model, originally developed for steady‐state …

Wake steering optimization under uncertainty

J Quick, J King, RN King, PE Hamlington… - Wind Energy …, 2020 - wes.copernicus.org
Turbines in wind power plants experience significant power losses when wakes from
upstream turbines affect the energy production of downstream turbines. A promising plant …

[HTML][HTML] Free-vortex models for wind turbine wakes under yaw misalignment–a validation study on far-wake effects

MJ van den Broek, D De Tavernier… - Wind Energy …, 2023 - wes.copernicus.org
Near-wake effects of wind turbine models using the free-vortex wake have been studied
extensively, but there is a lack of validation for such predictions in the mid to far wake. This …

[HTML][HTML] Adjoint optimisation for wind farm flow control with a free-vortex wake model

MJ van den Broek, D De Tavernier, B Sanderse… - Renewable Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Wind farm flow control aims to improve wind turbine performance by reducing aerodynamic
wake interaction between turbines. Dynamic, physics-based models of wind farm flows have …

Large eddy simulations of curled wakes from tilted wind turbines

HM Johlas, DP Schmidt, MA Lackner - Renewable Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
One control strategy to increase power production in wind farms is angling wind turbine
rotors, in order to steer wakes away from downwind turbines. Although rotor yaw is the most …

Toward flow control: An assessment of the curled wake model in the FLORIS framework

CJ Bay, J King, LA Martìnez-Tossas… - Journal of Physics …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
In this work, a new controls-oriented wake model is modified and compared to an analytical
Gaussian wake model, high-fidelity simulation data, and experimental wind tunnel …