A survey of modelling methods for high-fidelity wind farm simulations using large eddy simulation

SP Breton, J Sumner, JN Sørensen… - … of the Royal …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Large eddy simulations (LES) of wind farms have the capability to provide valuable and
detailed information about the dynamics of wind turbine wakes. For this reason, their use …

Review of turbine parameterization models for large-eddy simulation of wind turbine wakes

Z Li, X Liu, X Yang - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
Wind turbine parameterization models, which are often employed to avoid the computational
cost of resolving the blade aerodynamics, are critical for the capability of large-eddy …

Simulation of wind turbine wakes using the actuator line technique

JN Sørensen, RF Mikkelsen… - … of the Royal …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The actuator line technique was introduced as a numerical tool to be employed in
combination with large eddy simulations to enable the study of wakes and wake interaction …

Modeling of near wake characteristics in floating offshore wind turbines using an actuator line method

A Arabgolarcheh, S Jannesarahmadi, E Benini - Renewable Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Fast and effective numerical models describing the effect of platform motion on the
performance of floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) are fundamental to assess energy …

Effect of tower and nacelle on the flow past a wind turbine

C Santoni, K Carrasquillo, I Arenas‐Navarro… - Wind …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Large eddy simulations (LES) of the flow past a wind turbine with and without tower and
nacelle have been performed at 2 tip speed ratios (TSR,), λ= 3 and 6, where the latter …

Optimal smoothing length scale for actuator line models of wind turbine blades based on Gaussian body force distribution

LA Martínez‐Tossas, MJ Churchfield… - Wind Energy, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The actuator line model (ALM) is a commonly used method to represent lifting surfaces such
as wind turbine blades within large‐eddy simulations (LES). In the ALM, the lift and drag …

Filtered lifting line theory and application to the actuator line model

LA Martínez-Tossas, C Meneveau - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2019 - cambridge.org
Lifting line theory describes the cumulative effect of shed vorticity from finite span lifting
surfaces. In this work, the theory is reformulated to improve the accuracy of the actuator line …

Large-eddy simulation of a wind turbine using a filtered actuator line model

R Stanly, LA Martínez-Tossas, SH Frankel… - Journal of Wind …, 2022 - Elsevier
When dealing with multirotor devices such as quadcopters or wind farms, the cost of blade-
resolved large-eddy simulation (LES) becomes prohibitive. Combining LES with a family of …

Actuator line modeling of vertical-axis turbines

P Bachant, A Goude, M Wosnik - arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.01449, 2016 - arxiv.org
To bridge the gap between high and low fidelity numerical modeling tools for vertical-axis (or
cross-flow) turbines (VATs or CFTs), an actuator line model (ALM) was developed and …

A two-way coupling method for the study of aeroelastic effects in large wind turbines

G Della Posta, S Leonardi, M Bernardini - Renewable Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
The relevant size of state-of-the-art wind turbines suggests a significant Fluid-Structure
Interaction. Given the difficulties to measure the phenomena occurring, researchers …