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 …

[HTML][HTML] Grand challenges in the design, manufacture, and operation of future wind turbine systems

P Veers, CL Bottasso, L Manuel… - Wind Energy …, 2023 - wes.copernicus.org
Wind energy is foundational for achieving 100% renewable electricity production, and
significant innovation is required as the grid expands and accommodates hybrid plant …

A review of physical and numerical modeling techniques for horizontal-axis wind turbine wakes

MM Amiri, M Shadman, SF Estefen - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2024 - Elsevier
Wake effects within a wind farm are identified as one of the main factors impacting wind farm
power production and fatigue loading on wind turbines' structural elements. An efficient …

Dynamic strategies for yaw and induction control of wind farms based on large-eddy simulation and optimization

W Munters, J Meyers - Energies, 2018 - mdpi.com
In wind farms, wakes originating from upstream turbines cause reduced energy extraction
and increased loading variability in downstream rows. The prospect of mitigating these …

A parametric large-eddy simulation study of wind-farm blockage and gravity waves in conventionally neutral boundary layers

L Lanzilao, J Meyers - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2024 - cambridge.org
We present a suite of large-eddy simulations (LES) of a wind farm operating in
conventionally neutral boundary layers. A fixed 1.6 GW wind farm is considered for 40 …

[HTML][HTML] TOSCA–an open-source, finite-volume, large-eddy simulation (LES) environment for wind farm flows

S Stipa, A Ajay, D Allaerts, J Brinkerhoff - Wind Energy Science, 2024 - wes.copernicus.org
The growing number and growing size of wind energy projects coupled with the rapid
growth in high-performance computing technology are driving researchers toward …

[HTML][HTML] Wake properties and power output of very large wind farms for different meteorological conditions and turbine spacings: a large-eddy simulation case study for …

O Maas, S Raasch - Wind Energy Science, 2022 - wes.copernicus.org
Germany's expansion target for offshore wind power capacity of 40 GW by the year 2040 can
only be reached if large portions of the Exclusive Economic Zone in the German Bight are …

Gravity waves and wind-farm efficiency in neutral and stable conditions

D Allaerts, J Meyers - Boundary-layer meteorology, 2018 - Springer
We use large-eddy simulations (LES) to investigate the impact of stable stratification on
gravity-wave excitation and energy extraction in a large wind farm. To this end, the …

Flow adjustment inside and around large finite-size wind farms

KL Wu, F Porté-Agel - Energies, 2017 - mdpi.com
In this study, large-eddy simulations are performed to investigate the flow inside and around
large finite-size wind farms in conventionally-neutral atmospheric boundary layers. Special …