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IEEE2018

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Fernando Porté Agel, Vincent François-Charles Rolin

Despite the rising popularity of vertical axis wind turbines, or VAWTs, the wakes behind these machines is much less well understood than those behind horizontal axis wind turbines, or HAWTs. A thorough understanding of wakes is important as they can cause ...

2017

Wind Turbine Wake Mitigation through Blade Pitch Offset

Fernando Porté Agel, Deepu Dilip

The reduction in power output associated with complex turbine-wake interactions in wind farms necessitates the development of effective wake mitigation strategies. One approach to this end entails the downregulation of individual turbines from its maximum ...

2017

Interaction of atmospheric boundary layer flow with wind turbines

Majid Bastankhah

As wind turbines operate within the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL), the study of their interaction with the ABL flow can help us better understand and predict their performance. In addition to the performance of wind turbines, this interaction has an eff ...

EPFL2017

Wind tunnel study of the wind turbine interaction with a boundary-layer flow: Upwind region, turbine performance, and wake region

Fernando Porté Agel, Majid Bastankhah

Comprehensive wind tunnel experiments were carried out to study the interaction of a turbulent boundary layer with a wind turbine operating under different tip-speed ratios and yaw angles. Force and power measurements were performed to characterize the var ...

Amer Inst Physics2017

A Root-Locus Design Methodology Derived From the Impedance/Admittance Stability Formulation and Its Application for LCL Grid-Connected Converters in Wind Turbines

Francisco Daniel Freijedo Fernández, Enrique Rodriguez Diaz

This paper presents a systematic methodology for the design and the tuning of the current controller in LCL grid-connected converters for wind turbine applications. The design target is formulated as a minimization of the current loop dominant time constan ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2017

Are Standardized Lightning Current Waveforms Suitable for Aircraft and Wind Turbine Blades Made of Composite Materials?

Marcos Rubinstein, Anastasios Vassilopoulos

The use of sensitive electronics in avionics and wind generation systems, as well as the introduction of lower-conductivity composite materials make it important to ensure adequate lightning testing of airplanes and wind turbines. Evidence exists suggestin ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

A New Miniature Wind Turbine for Wind Tunnel Experiments. Part I: Design and Performance

Fernando Porté Agel, Majid Bastankhah

Miniature wind turbines, employed in wind tunnel experiments to study the interaction of turbines with turbulent boundary layers, usually suffer from poor performance with respect to their large-scale counterparts in the field. Moreover, although wakes of ...

2017

Wind farm density and harvested power in very large wind farms: A low-order model

Varun Sharma, Marc Calaf Bracons

In this work we create new understanding of wind turbine wakes recovery process as a function of wind farm density using large-eddy simulations of an atmospheric boundary layer diurnal cycle. Simulations are forced with a constant geostrophic wind and a ti ...

Amer Physical Soc2017

On Wind Turbine Impedance Analysis via Different Approaches

Antonio Sunjerga

Lightning is one of the main causes of damage to wind turbines. The continuous increase in the wind turbine heights makes these structures even more vulnerable against lightning. As a result, the design of proper lightning protection system is of high impo ...

Ieee2017

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