[HTML][HTML] A review of wind turbines in complex terrain

M Elgendi, M AlMallahi, A Abdelkhalig… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
With global energy consumption increasing, a shift to renewable energy resources is critical
for sustainable energy development. Wind energy has emerged as one of the most …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Accelerating deployment of offshore wind energy alter wind climate and reduce future power generation potentials

N Akhtar, B Geyer, B Rockel, PS Sommer, C Schrum - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The European Union has set ambitious CO2 reduction targets, stimulating
renewable energy production and accelerating deployment of offshore wind energy in …

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) …

[HTML][HTML] Control-oriented model for secondary effects of wake steering

J King, P Fleming, R King… - Wind Energy …, 2021 - wes.copernicus.org
This paper presents a model to incorporate the secondary effects of wake steering in large
arrays of turbines. Previous models have focused on the aerodynamic interaction of wake …

Log-layer mismatch and modeling of the fluctuating wall stress in wall-modeled large-eddy simulations

XIA Yang, GI Park, P Moin - Physical review fluids, 2017 - APS
Log-layer mismatch refers to a chronic problem found in wall-modeled large-eddy simulation
(WMLES) or detached-eddy simulation, where the modeled wall-shear stress deviates from …

Diurnal impact of atmospheric stability on inter-farm wake and power generation efficiency at neighboring onshore wind farms in complex terrain

Q Wang, K Luo, C Wu, Y Mu, J Tan, J Fan - Energy Conversion and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Enhancing the power production efficiency of large-scale wind farms is challenging for
onshore wind power due to the variability of atmospheric conditions. This work aims to study …