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 …

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 …

Experimental and theoretical study of wind turbine wakes in yawed conditions

M Bastankhah, F Porté-Agel - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2016 - cambridge.org
This work is dedicated to systematically studying and predicting the wake characteristics of a
yawed wind turbine immersed in a turbulent boundary layer. To achieve this goal, wind …

Review and evaluation of wake loss models for wind energy applications

CL Archer, A Vasel-Be-Hagh, C Yan, S Wu, Y Pan… - Applied Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Choosing an appropriate wake loss model (WLM) is a critical task in predicting power
production of a wind farm and performing a wind farm layout optimization. Due to their …

Analytical modeling of wind farms: A new approach for power prediction

A Niayifar, F Porté-Agel - Energies, 2016 - mdpi.com
Wind farm power production is known to be strongly affected by turbine wake effects. The
purpose of this study is to develop and test a new analytical model for the prediction of wind …

A new Gaussian-based analytical wake model for wind turbines considering ambient turbulence intensities and thrust coefficient effects

T Ishihara, GW Qian - Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial …, 2018 - Elsevier
A new wake model for wind turbines considering ambient turbulence intensity and thrust
coefficient effects is proposed by numerical and analytical studies. Firstly, two kinds of …

Comparison of wind farm large eddy simulations using actuator disk and actuator line models with wind tunnel experiments

RJAM Stevens, LA Martínez-Tossas, C Meneveau - Renewable energy, 2018 - Elsevier
We compare wind farm large eddy simulations with the EPFL wind tunnel measurement by
Chamorro and Porté-Agel (Bound-Lay. Meteorol. 136, 515 (2010) and Energies 4, 1916 …

Wind farm layout optimization to minimize the wake induced turbulence effect on wind turbines

L Cao, M Ge, X Gao, B Du, B Li, Z Huang, Y Liu - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
High turbulence intensity induced by the wake effect in wind farms is of great significance to
the fatigue life of wind turbines. However, previous wind farm layout optimization (WFLO) …

Comparative performance of twelve metaheuristics for wind farm layout optimisation

T Kunakote, N Sabangban, S Kumar, GG Tejani… - … Methods in Engineering, 2022 - Springer
This work bridges two research fields ie metaheuristics and wind farm layout design.
Comparative performance of twelve metaheuristics (MHs) on wind farm layout optimisation …

IDDES simulation of the performance and wake dynamics of the wind turbines under different turbulent inflow conditions

G Chen, XB Li, XF Liang - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper aims at investigating the effect of the inflow turbulence on the aerodynamics and
the wake instabilities of the wind turbine. The improved delayed detached eddy simulation …