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 …

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 …

A new analytical model for wind-turbine wakes

M Bastankhah, F Porté-Agel - Renewable energy, 2014 - Elsevier
A new analytical wake model is proposed and validated to predict the wind velocity
distribution downwind of a wind turbine. The model is derived by applying conservation of …

A numerical study of the effects of atmospheric and wake turbulence on wind turbine dynamics

MJ Churchfield, S Lee, J Michalakes… - Journal of …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Although the atmospheric sciences community has been studying the effects of atmospheric
stability and surface roughness on the planetary boundary layer for some time, their effects …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Wake structure in actuator disk models of wind turbines in yaw under uniform inflow conditions

MF Howland, J Bossuyt, LA Martínez-Tossas… - Journal of Renewable …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Reducing wake losses in wind farms by deflecting the wakes through turbine yawing has
been shown to be a feasible wind farm controls approach. Nonetheless, the effectiveness of …

Optimization of wind turbine layout position in a wind farm using a newly-developed two-dimensional wake model

X Gao, H Yang, L Lu - Applied Energy, 2016 - Elsevier
The development and validation of a 2D analytical wind turbine wake model based on
Jensen's wake model using Gaussian function is presented in this paper. The velocity deficit …

Wind power production from very large offshore wind farms

SC Pryor, RJ Barthelmie, TJ Shepherd - Joule, 2021 - cell.com
We provide the first quantitative assessment of power production and wake generation from
offshore wind energy lease areas along the US east coast. Deploying 15-MW wind turbines …