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 …

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 …

Flow structure and turbulence in wind farms

RJAM Stevens, C Meneveau - Annual review of fluid mechanics, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Similar to other renewable energy sources, wind energy is characterized by a low power
density. Hence, for wind energy to make considerable contributions to the world's overall …

[HTML][HTML] Wind turbine wake models developed at the technical university of Denmark: A review

T Göçmen, P Van der Laan, PE Réthoré… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2016 - Elsevier
Wind turbine wakes are one of the most important aspects in wind power meteorology
because they decrease the power production and increase the loading of downstream wind …

Influence of atmospheric stability on wind-turbine wakes: A large-eddy simulation study

M Abkar, F Porté-Agel - Physics of fluids, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
In this study, large-eddy simulation is combined with a turbine model to investigate the
influence of atmospheric thermal stability on wind-turbine wakes. The simulation results …

Estimating the wake deflection downstream of a wind turbine in different atmospheric stabilities: an LES study

L Vollmer, G Steinfeld, D Heinemann… - Wind Energy …, 2016 - wes.copernicus.org
An intentional yaw misalignment of wind turbines is currently discussed as one possibility to
increase the overall energy yield of wind farms. The idea behind this control is to decrease …

Large Eddy Simulation of wind farm aerodynamics: A review

D Mehta, AH Van Zuijlen, B Koren… - Journal of Wind …, 2014 - Elsevier
To study wind farm aerodynamics (WFA), the Wind Power industry currently relies on simple
Engineering Models (EM) that simulate wind farms using basic principles of physics and …

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 …

Wake meandering effects on floating wind turbines

AS Wise, EE Bachynski - Wind Energy, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
As more floating farms are being developed, the wake interaction between multiple floating
wind turbines (FWTs) is becoming increasingly relevant. FWTs have long natural periods in …

Characteristics of wind turbine wakes for different blade designs

G Dong, J Qin, Z Li, X Yang - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - cambridge.org
In this work, we investigate the characteristics of wind turbine wakes for three different blade
designs (ie the NREL-Ori, NREL-Root and NREL-Tip designs, where the NREL-Ori refers to …