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Darrieus wind turbine

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Volumetric LiDAR scanning of a wind turbine wake and comparison with a 3D analytical wake model

Fernando Porté Agel, Fernando Carbajo Fuertes

A correct estimation of the future power production is of capital importance whenever the feasibility of a future wind farm is being studied. This power estimation relies mostly on three aspects: (1) a reliable measurement of the wind resource in the area, ...

2016

Volumetric LiDAR Scanning of a Wind Turbine Wake and Comparison with a 3D Analytical Wake Model

Fernando Porté Agel, Fernando Carbajo Fuertes

2016

Hub vortex instability within wind turbine wakes: Effects of wind turbulence, loading conditions, and blade aerodynamics

François Gallaire, Giacomo Valerio Iungo, Francesco Viola

The near wake of wind turbines is characterized by the presence of the hub vortex, which is a coherent vorticity structure generated from the interaction between the root vortices and the boundary layer evolving over the turbine nacelle. Bymoving downstrea ...

Amer Physical Soc2016

Flow adjustment in a finite size wind farm in a neutral ABL

Varun Sharma, Marc Parlange, Marc Calaf Bracons

It is now well-recognized that in the presence of an asymptotically large wind farm, the ABL adjusts to this ‘enhanced’ roughness to form a fully developed ‘wind turbine array boundary layer’ (WTABL), where the driving force of the ABL is in balance with t ...

2016

Experimental and theoretical study of wind turbine wakes in yawed conditions

Fernando Porté Agel, Majid Bastankhah

This work is dedicated to systematically studying and predicting the wake characteristics of a yawed wind turbine immersed in a turbulent boundary layer. To achieve this goal, wind tunnel experiments were performed to characterize the wake of a horizontal- ...

Cambridge University Press2016

Effect of Large Finite-Size Wind Farms and Their Wakes on Atmospheric Boundary Layer Dynamics

Fernando Porté Agel, Ka Ling Wu

Through the use of large-eddy simulation, the effect of large finite-size wind farms and their wakes on conventionally-neutral atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) dynamics and power extraction is investigated. Specifi- cally, this study focuses on a wind farm ...

2016

Advanced methods for the evaluation of lightning incidence over large areas, wind turbine parks and tall towers

Aleksandr Smorgonskii

Lightning presents a significant danger to electrical and electronic equipment, buildings and monuments, people and animals. Although our knowledge about lightning has significantly improved over last century, the development of new composite materials and ...

EPFL2016

Energy production with a tubular propeller turbine

Anton Schleiss, Cécile Münch-Alligné, Mário Jorge Rodrigues Pereira Da Franca, Vlad Hasmatuchi, Irene Almeida Samora

Micro-hydropower is a way of improving the energetic efficiency of existent water systems. In the particular case of drinking water systems, several studies have showed that pressure reducing valves can be by-passed with turbines in order to recover the di ...

2016

Analytical Modeling of Wind Farms: A New Approach for Power Prediction

Fernando Porté Agel, Amin Niayifar

Wind farm power production is known to be strongly affected by turbine wake effects. The purpose of this study is to develop and test a new analytical model for the prediction of wind turbine wakes and the associated power losses in wind farms. The new mod ...

Mdpi Ag2016

Large-Eddy Simulation of the Wake Flow Inside and Downwind of a Large Finite-Size Wind Farm

Fernando Porté Agel, Ka Ling Wu

As the number of operating offshore large wind farms continues to increase, it is important to investigate the wake flows of these large wind farms since they could significantly affect the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) dynamics and the performance of a ...

2016

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