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 …

Wind plant power optimization through yaw control using a parametric model for wake effects—a CFD simulation study

PMO Gebraad, FW Teeuwisse… - Wind …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
This article presents a wind plant control strategy that optimizes the yaw settings of wind
turbines for improved energy production of the whole wind plant by taking into account wake …

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 …

Field test of wake steering at an offshore wind farm

P Fleming, J Annoni, JJ Shah, L Wang… - Wind Energy …, 2017 - wes.copernicus.org
In this paper, a field test of wake-steering control is presented. The field test is the result of a
collaboration between the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Envision …

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 …

Evaluating techniques for redirecting turbine wakes using SOWFA

PA Fleming, PMO Gebraad, S Lee, JW van Wingerden… - Renewable Energy, 2014 - Elsevier
Wind plant control is an active field of research in which controllers are developed that seek
to maximize overall wind-plant performance in terms of power production, turbine structural …

Simulation comparison of wake mitigation control strategies for a two‐turbine case

P Fleming, PMO Gebraad, S Lee… - Wind …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Wind turbines arranged in a wind plant impact each other through their wakes. Wind plant
control is an active research field that attempts to improve wind plant performance by …

Modeling turbine wakes and power losses within a wind farm using LES: An application to the Horns Rev offshore wind farm

YT Wu, F Porté-Agel - Renewable Energy, 2015 - Elsevier
A modeling framework is proposed and validated to simulate turbine wakes and associated
power losses in wind farms. It combines the large-eddy simulation (LES) technique with …

Intelligent wind farm control via deep reinforcement learning and high-fidelity simulations

H Dong, J Zhang, X Zhao - Applied Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Wind farms' power-generation efficiency is constrained by the high system complexity. A
novel deep reinforcement learning (RL)-based wind farm control scheme is proposed to …