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

Wind Energy

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 2135-2143

  Fleming, Paul ^a   Gebraad, Pieter M O ^b   Lee, Sang ^a   Van Wingerden, Jan Willem ^b   Johnson, Kathryn ^a   Churchfield, Matt ^a   Michalakes, John ^a   Spalart, Philippe ^c   Moriarty, Patrick ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

CFD; computational fluid dynamics; independent pitch control; wake redirection; wind energy; wind farm control; wind turbine wakes

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

COORDINATING CONTROLS; HIGH-FIDELITY SIMULATIONS; INDIVIDUAL PITCH CONTROL; MITIGATION STRATEGY; PITCH CONTROL; SIMULATION COMPARISON; WIND FARM; WIND TURBINE WAKES;

WAKES;

BASELINE CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POWER GENERATION; SIMULATION; WAKE; WIND FARM; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 84944688457     PISSN: 10954244     EISSN: 10991824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/we.1810     Document Type: Article

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