Analysis of wind turbine equipment failure and intelligent operation and maintenance research

H Peng, S Li, L Shangguan, Y Fan, H Zhang - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Power generation from wind farms is growing rapidly around the world. In the past decade,
wind energy has played an important role in contributing to sustainable development …

Wind farm power optimization via yaw angle control: A wind tunnel study

M Bastankhah, F Porté-Agel - Journal of Renewable and Sustainable …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Yaw angle control is known nowadays as a promising and effective technique to mitigate
wake effects in wind farms. In this paper, we perform wind tunnel experiments to study the …

Optimization of wind turbine yaw angles in a wind farm using a three-dimensional yawed wake model

B Dou, T Qu, L Lei, P Zeng - Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
An appropriate yaw angle misalignment of the wind turbines in a wind farm has been found
to improve the average energy production of the turbine array. Predicting the spatial …

Large-eddy simulation on the similarity between wakes of wind turbines with different yaw angles

Z Li, X Yang - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2021 - cambridge.org
This work is dedicated to studying the similarity between wakes of wind turbines with
different yaw angles and tip speed ratios under different turbulent inflows using large-eddy …

Wind tunnel experiments on wind turbine wakes in yaw: effects of inflow turbulence and shear

J Bartl, F Mühle, J Schottler, L Sætran… - Wind Energy …, 2018 - wes.copernicus.org
The wake characteristics behind a yawed model wind turbine exposed to different
customized inflow conditions are investigated. Laser Doppler anemometry is used to …

Artificial neural network based reinforcement learning for wind turbine yaw control

A Saenz-Aguirre, E Zulueta, U Fernandez-Gamiz… - Energies, 2019 - mdpi.com
This paper introduces a novel data driven yaw control algorithm synthesis method based on
Reinforcement Learning (RL) for a variable pitch variable speed wind turbine. Yaw control …

Comparison of the turbulence in the wakes of an actuator disc and a model wind turbine by higher order statistics: A wind tunnel study

I Neunaber, M Hölling, J Whale, J Peinke - Renewable Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Knowledge of the turbulence in the wakes of wind turbines is important to improve
the operation and lifetime of downstream turbines exposed to these wakes. As the …

A time‐varying formulation of the curled wake model within the FAST. Farm framework

E Branlard, LA Martínez‐Tossas, J Jonkman - Wind Energy, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In this article, we present a time‐varying formulation of the curled wake model that we
implemented in FAST. Farm. The curled wake model, originally developed for steady‐state …

[HTML][HTML] The curled wake model: a three-dimensional and extremely fast steady-state wake solver for wind plant flows

LA Martínez-Tossas, J King, E Quon… - Wind Energy …, 2021 - wes.copernicus.org
Wind turbine wake models typically require approximations, such as wake superposition
and deflection models, to accurately describe wake physics. However, capturing the …

Distinct turbulent regions in the wake of a wind turbine and their inflow-dependent locations: the creation of a wake map

I Neunaber, M Hölling, RJAM Stevens, G Schepers… - Energies, 2020 - mdpi.com
Wind turbines are usually clustered in wind farms which causes the downstream turbines to
operate in the turbulent wakes of upstream turbines. As turbulence is directly related to …