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 …

Review of turbine parameterization models for large-eddy simulation of wind turbine wakes

Z Li, X Liu, X Yang - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
Wind turbine parameterization models, which are often employed to avoid the computational
cost of resolving the blade aerodynamics, are critical for the capability of large-eddy …

Large-eddy simulation on the similarity between wakes of wind turbines with different yaw angles

Z Li, X Yang - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2021 - cambridge.org
This work is dedicated to studying the similarity between wakes of wind turbines with
different yaw angles and tip speed ratios under different turbulent inflows using large-eddy …

The dynamics of the tip and hub vortices shed by a propeller: Eulerian and Lagrangian approaches

A Posa, R Broglia, E Balaras - Computers & Fluids, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Large Eddy Simulation on a grid composed of 3.8 billion points is utilized to
reproduce the wake of a marine propeller. Results are compared against Particle Imaging …

Large-eddy simulation of a utility-scale wind farm in complex terrain

X Yang, M Pakula, F Sotiropoulos - Applied energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Site-specific wind farm design must take into account the effects of site-specific terrain
topography. Large-eddy simulation (LES) is a promising approach for simulating the site …

Coherent structure colouring: identification of coherent structures from sparse data using graph theory

KL Schlueter-Kuck, JO Dabiri - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2017 - cambridge.org
We present a frame-invariant method for detecting coherent structures from Lagrangian flow
trajectories that can be sparse in number, as is the case in many fluid mechanics …

Onset of wake meandering for a floating offshore wind turbine under side-to-side motion

Z Li, G Dong, X Yang - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - cambridge.org
Wind turbine wakes, being convectively unstable, may behave as an amplifier of upstream
perturbations and make downstream turbines experience strong inflow fluctuations. In this …

Predictive capability of actuator disk models for wakes of different wind turbine designs

G Dong, Z Li, J Qin, X Yang - Renewable Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
To evaluate the predictive capability of the actuator disk (AD) models in simulating wakes of
different wind turbine designs, we compare the results of the AD simulation with those of the …

Recovery in the wake of in-line axial-flow rotors

A Posa, R Broglia, E Balaras - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The flow around the rotor of an axial turbine, operating in the wake of an upstream one, is
resolved using large-eddy simulation on a cylindrical grid consisting of 3.8 billion points …

Meta‐Lens Particle Image Velocimetry

X Liu, Z Zhao, S Xu, J Zhang, Y Zhou, Y He… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Fluid flow behavior is visualized through particle image velocimetry (PIV) for understanding
and studying experimental fluid dynamics. However, traditional PIV methods require multiple …