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 …

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 …

The characteristics of helically deflected wind turbine wakes

H Korb, H Asmuth, S Ivanell - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - cambridge.org
The helix approach is a new individual pitch control method to mitigate wake effects of wind
turbines. Its name is derived from the helical shape of the wake caused by a rotating radial …

Large-eddy simulation of a wind turbine using a filtered actuator line model

R Stanly, LA Martínez-Tossas, SH Frankel… - Journal of Wind …, 2022 - Elsevier
When dealing with multirotor devices such as quadcopters or wind farms, the cost of blade-
resolved large-eddy simulation (LES) becomes prohibitive. Combining LES with a family of …

Progress in validation of rotor aerodynamic codes using field data

K Boorsma, G Schepers… - Wind Energy …, 2022 - wes.copernicus.org
Within the framework of the fourth phase of International Energy Agency IEA Wind Task 29, a
large comparison exercise between measurements and aero-elastic simulations has been …

The actuator line method for wind turbine modelling applied in a variational multiscale framework

M Ravensbergen, AB Mohamed, A Korobenko - Computers & Fluids, 2020 - Elsevier
The actuator line method is implemented into a residual-based variational multiscale (VMS)
fluid modelling framework to simulate airflow around a wind turbine. In the actuator line …

Wakes of rotorcraft in advancing flight: A large-eddy simulation study

DG Caprace, P Chatelain, G Winckelmans - Physics of Fluids, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
We perform the large-eddy simulation of the flow past a helicopter rotor to support the
investigation of rotorcraft wake characteristics and decay mechanisms. A hybrid Lagrangian …

Effects of rotor-airframe interaction on the aeromechanics and wake of a quadcopter in forward flight

DG Caprace, A Ning, P Chatelain… - Aerospace Science and …, 2022 - Elsevier
From small drones to large Urban Air Mobility vehicles, the market of vertical take-off and
landing (VTOL) aircraft is currently booming. Modern VTOL designs feature a variety of …

Wind turbine response in waked inflow: A modelling benchmark against full-scale measurements

H Asmuth, GPN Diaz, HA Madsen, E Branlard… - Renewable Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Predicting the power and loads of wind turbines in waked inflow conditions still presents a
major modelling challenge. It requires the accurate modelling of the atmospheric flow …

A new coupling of a GPU‐resident large‐eddy simulation code with a multiphysics wind turbine simulation tool

E Taschner, M Folkersma, LA Martínez‐Tossas… - Wind …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The development of new wind farm control strategies can benefit from combined analysis of
flow dynamics in the farm and the behavior of individual turbines within one simulation …