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Modeling turbine wakes and power losses within a wind farm using LES: An application to the Horns Rev offshore wind farm

A modeling framework is proposed and validated to simulate turbine wakes and associated power losses in wind farms. It combines the large-eddy simulation (LES) technique with blade element theory and a turbine-model-specific relationship between shaft torq ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2015

A Numerical Study of the Effects of Wind Direction on Turbine Wakes and Power Losses in a Large Wind Farm

Fernando Porté Agel, Yu-Ting Wu, Chang-Hung Chen

In this study, large-eddy simulations (LESs) were performed to investigate the effects of changing wind direction on the turbine wakes and associated power losses in the Horns Rev offshore wind farm. In the LES framework, the turbulent subgrid-scale stress ...

Mdpi Ag2013

Large-Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Boundary Layer Flow through Wind Turbines and Wind Farms

Yu-Ting Wu

In this thesis, we develop a new large-eddy simulation (LES) framework to simulate atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) flows through wind turbines and wind farms. A Lagrangian scale-dependent dynamic model is used to compute the Smagorinsky model coefficient ...

EPFL2013

Simulation of Turbulent Flow Inside and Above Wind Farms: Model Validation and Layout Effects

Fernando Porté Agel, Yu-Ting Wu

A recently-developed large-eddy simulation framework is validated and used to investigate turbulent flow within and above wind farms under neutral conditions. Two different layouts are considered, consisting of thirty wind turbines occupying the same total ...

Springer Netherlands2013

Field Measurements of Wind Turbine Wakes with Lidars

Fernando Porté Agel, Yu-Ting Wu, Giacomo Valerio Iungo

Field measurements of the wake flow produced from a 2-MW Enercon E-70 wind turbine were performed using three scanning Doppler wind lidars. A GPS-based technique was used to determine the position of the wind turbine and the wind lidar locations, as well a ...

Amer Meteorological Soc2013

Interaction between large wind farms and the atmospheric boundary layer

Fernando Porté Agel, Yu-Ting Wu, Hao Lu

Accurate prediction of atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) flow and its interactions with wind turbines is of great importance for optimizing the design and efficiency of wind farms. This study first focuses on recent efforts to develop and validate a large-e ...

2012

Large-eddy simulation of atmospheric boundary layer flow through wind turbines and wind farms

Fernando Porté Agel, Yu-Ting Wu, Hao Lu

Accurate prediction of atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) flow and its interactions with wind turbines and wind farms is critical for optimizing the design (turbine siting) of wind energy projects. Large-eddy simulation (LES) can potentially provide the kind ...

Elsevier2011

Large-Eddy Simulation of Wind-Turbine Wakes: Evaluation of Turbine Parametrisations

Fernando Porté Agel, Yu-Ting Wu

Large-eddy simulation (LES), coupled with a wind-turbine model, is used to investigate the characteristics of a wind-turbine wake in a neutral turbulent boundary-layer flow. The tuning-free Lagrangian scale-dependent dynamic subgrid-scale (SGS) model is us ...

Springer Netherlands2011