Turbulence and control of wind farms

CR Shapiro, GM Starke… - Annual Review of Control …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The dynamics of the turbulent atmospheric boundary layer play a fundamental role in wind
farm energy production, governing the velocity field that enters the farm as well as the …

The Coriolis force and the direction of rotation of the blades significantly affect the wake of wind turbines

R Nouri, A Vasel-Be-Hagh, CL Archer - Applied Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
The aerodynamic interactions of wind turbines within a wind farm cause major energy
losses. Yaw control is a promising active strategy to tackle this issue in real time during the …

Flow control leveraging downwind rotors for improved wind power plant operation

CJ Bay, J Annoni, LA Martínez-Tossas… - 2019 American …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Controlling the air flow within wind power plants has the potential to improve plant
performance and is an active area of research in the wind energy control community. In …

Joint state-parameter estimation for a control-oriented LES wind farm model

BM Doekemeijer, S Boersma, LY Pao… - Journal of Physics …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Wind farm control research typically relies on computationally inexpensive, surrogate
models for real-time optimization. However, due to the large time delays involved, changing …

Wind farm wake-steering exploration during grid curtailment

J Hoyt, P Seiler - 2020 American Control Conference (ACC), 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wind farm wake steering is an active topic in the wind community. Yaw-induced wake
steering in wind farms has shown significant increases in total wind farm power output …

A distributed model predictive wind farm controller for active power control

V van de Scheur, S Boersma - arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.05621, 2020 - arxiv.org
Due to the fluctuating nature of the wind and the increasing use of wind energy as a power
source, wind power will have an increasing negative influence on the stability of the power …

[PDF][PDF] Joint state-parameter estimation for a control-oriented LES wind farm model

LMM van den Bos, B Sanderse, L Blonk, L Schröder… - research.tudelft.nl
Wind farm control research typically relies on computationally inexpensive, surrogate
models for real-time optimization. However, due to the large time delays involved, changing …