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Analytical modeling of turbine wakes in yawed conditions

Increasing wind energy production has become a unanimous plan for virtually all the developed countries. In addition to constructing new wind farms, this goal can be achieved by making wind farms more efficient. Control strategies in wind farms, such as ma ...

2016

Prediction and Comparison of low-Reynolds Airfoil Performance

Vincent François-Charles Rolin, Eric Sauvageat

This semester project is aiming to compare different airfoils in order to select the most promising one as blade shape for scaled the straight-bladed giromills used in wind tunnel experiments. For this matter, a large amount of steady-state CFD-simulations ...

2016

Wind-tunnel study of the wake behind a vertical axis wind turbine in a boundary layer flow using stereoscopic particle image velocimetry

Fernando Porté Agel, Vincent François-Charles Rolin

Stereo particle image velocimetry is used in a wind-tunnel to study boundary layer effects in the wake behind a vertical axis wind turbine. The turbine is a three-bladed giromill with a solidity of 1.18. The wake is studied for a tip speed ratio of 2 and a ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2015

Wind tunnel study of a vertical axis wind turbine in a turbulent boundary layer flow

Fernando Porté Agel, Vincent François-Charles Rolin

Vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) are in a relatively infant state of development when compared to their cousins the horizontal axis wind turbines. Very few studies have been carried out to characterize the wake flow behind VAWTs, and virtually none to o ...

2015

Time-adaptive wind turbine model for an LES framework

Varun Sharma, Michael Lehning, Marc Parlange, Marc Calaf Bracons

Most large-eddy simulation studies related to wind energy have been carried out either by using a fixed pressure gradient to ensure that mean wind direction is perpendicular to the wind turbine rotor disk or by forcing the flow with a geostrophic wind and ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Effects of incoming wind condition and wind turbine aerodynamics on the hub vortex instability

François Gallaire, Giacomo Valerio Iungo, Francesco Viola

Dynamics and instabilities occurring in the near-wake of wind turbines have a crucial role for the wake downstream evolution, and for the onset of far-wake instabilities. Furthermore, wake dynamics significantly affect the intra-wind farm wake flow, wake i ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015

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

Fernando Porté Agel, Yu-Ting Wu

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 new wind-farm parameterization for large-scale atmospheric models

Fernando Porté Agel, Mahdi Abkar

In this article, a new model is developed to parameterize the effect of wind farms in large-scale atmospheric models such as weather models. In the new model, wind turbines in a wind farm are parameterized as elevated sinks of momentum and sources of turbu ...

Amer Inst Physics2015

Instability of wind turbine wakes immersed in the atmospheric boundary layer

Fernando Porté Agel, François Gallaire, Giacomo Valerio Iungo, Francesco Viola

In this work a technique capable to investigate the near-wake stability properties of a wind turbine immersed in the atmospheric boundary layer is presented. Specifically, a 2D local spatial stability analysis is developed in order to take into account typ ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015

Instability of wind turbine wakes immersed in the atmospheric boundary layer

Fernando Porté Agel, François Gallaire, Giacomo Valerio Iungo, Francesco Viola

2015

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