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 …

Optimization of monopiles for offshore wind turbines

D Kallehave, BW Byrne… - … of the Royal …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The offshore wind industry currently relies on subsidy schemes to be competitive with fossil-
fuel-based energy sources. For the wind industry to survive, it is vital that costs are …

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 …

A concurrent precursor inflow method for large eddy simulations and applications to finite length wind farms

RJAM Stevens, J Graham, C Meneveau - Renewable energy, 2014 - Elsevier
In order to enable simulations of developing wind turbine array boundary layers with highly
realistic inflow conditions a concurrent precursor method for Large Eddy Simulations is …

Offshore wind farm wake recovery: Airborne measurements and its representation in engineering models

B Cañadillas, R Foreman, V Barth… - Wind …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We present an analysis of wind measurements from a series of airborne campaigns
conducted to sample the wakes from two North Sea wind farm clusters, with the aim of …

Effects of turbine spacing on the power output of extended wind‐farms

RJAM Stevens, DF Gayme, C Meneveau - Wind Energy, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We present results from large eddy simulations of extended wind‐farms for several turbine
configurations with a range of different spanwise and streamwise spacing combinations. The …

FSI simulation of two back-to-back wind turbines in atmospheric boundary layer flow

A Korobenko, J Yan, SMI Gohari, S Sarkar… - Computers & Fluids, 2017 - Elsevier
The paper presents aerodynamic and fluid–structure interaction (FSI) simulations of two
back-to-back 5 MW horizontal-axis wind turbines (HAWTs) at full scale and with full …

Large eddy simulation studies of the effects of alignment and wind farm length

RJAM Stevens, DF Gayme, C Meneveau - Journal of renewable and …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
Large eddy simulations of wind farms are performed to study the effects of wind turbine row
alignment with respect to the incoming flow direction. Various wind farms with fixed stream …

An application of the actuator disc model for wind turbine wakes calculations

F Castellani, A Vignaroli - Applied Energy, 2013 - Elsevier
Numerical simulation of wake losses is a fundamental step towards the optimization of the
exploitation of the renewable wind energy potential especially in off-shore conditions or in …

[图书][B] Linearised CFD models for wakes

S Ott, J Berg, M Nielsen - 2011 - orbit.dtu.dk
This report describes the development of a fast and reasonably accurate model for the
prediction of energy production in oshore wind farms taking wake eects into account. The …