Publications by Fernando Porté Agel

Three-dimensional wind-turbine wake characterization via tomographic particle-image velocimetry

Wind turbines are often sited on different topographical features. In the current work, we performed wind-tunnel measurements of the wake behind a single wind turbine sited on two escarpments differing in the windward side shape using tomographic particle- ...

IOP Publishing2020

Wind Energy Prediction in Highly Complex Terrain by Computational Fluid Dynamics

Fernando Porté Agel, Jiannong Fang, Daniel Jacob Tabas

With rising levels of wind power penetration in global electricity production, the relevance of wind power prediction is growing. More accurate forecasts reduce the required total amount of energy reserve capacity needed to ensure grid reliability and the ...

2019

Multirotor UAV-based platform for the measurement of atmospheric turbulence: validation and signature detection of tip vortices of wind turbine blades.

Fernando Porté Agel, Lionel Wilhelm, Fernando Carbajo Fuertes

The present study describes the development of a technique for the measurement of atmospheric turbulence and temperature at a point in space based on the integration of a fast-response multi-hole pressure probe and a thermocouple with an inertial measureme ...

2019

Wind-Turbine and Wind-Farm Flows: A Review

Fernando Porté Agel, Majid Bastankhah, Sina Shamsoddin

Wind energy, together with other renewable energy sources, are expected to grow substantially in the coming decades and play a key role in mitigating climate change and achieving energy sustainability. One of the main challenges in optimizing the design, o ...

2019

Multi-Objective Wind Farm Layout Optimization with unconstrained Area Shape

Fernando Porté Agel, Nicolas Otto Kirchner Bossi

It is well known that turbine wakes are responsible for considerable power losses in a wind farm. In the last two decades Wind Farm Layout Optimization (WFLO) has been extendedly used to model the minimization of such wake effects in the attempt to maximiz ...

2019

Characterization of Wind Turbine Wakes with Nacelle-Mounted Doppler LiDARs and Model Validation in the Presence of Wind Veer

Fernando Porté Agel, Peter Andreas Brugger, Corey Dean Markfort, Fernando Carbajo Fuertes, Mohsen Vahidzadeh

Accurate prediction of wind turbine wakes is important for more efficient design and operation of wind parks. Volumetric wake measurements of nacelle-mounted Doppler lidars are used to characterize the wake of a full-scale wind turbine and to validate an a ...

2019

Wind farm power optimization via yaw angle control: A wind tunnel study

Fernando Porté Agel, Majid Bastankhah

Yaw angle control is known nowadays as a promising and effective technique to mitigate wake effects in wind farms. In this paper, we perform wind tunnel experiments to study the performance of a model wind farm with five turbine rows under a wide variety o ...

2019

Wind Farm Layout Optimization using Genetic Algorithms with a Gaussian Wake Model

Fernando Porté Agel, Nicolas Otto Kirchner Bossi

In this work we have designed and implemented different Genetic Algorithms especially adapted to the Wind Farm Layout Optimization (WFLO) problem, with the goal to optimize the overall power output and electricity cable length of different Wind Farms curre ...

2018

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Fernando Porté Agel

Three-dimensional wind-turbine wake characterization via tomographic particle-image velocimetry

Wind Energy Prediction in Highly Complex Terrain by Computational Fluid Dynamics

Multirotor UAV-based platform for the measurement of atmospheric turbulence: validation and signature detection of tip vortices of wind turbine blades.

Large-Eddy Simulation of Yawed Wind-Turbine Wakes: Comparisons with Wind Tunnel Measurements and Analytical Wake Models

Wind-Turbine and Wind-Farm Flows: A Review

Multi-Objective Wind Farm Layout Optimization with unconstrained Area Shape

Wind Turbine Wakes in Directionally Varying Wind Shears

Characterization of Wind Turbine Wakes with Nacelle-Mounted Doppler LiDARs and Model Validation in the Presence of Wind Veer

Wind farm power optimization via yaw angle control: A wind tunnel study

Wind Farm Layout Optimization using Genetic Algorithms with a Gaussian Wake Model

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Wind farm power optimization via yaw angle control: A wind tunnel study

Wind Farm Layout Optimization using Genetic Algorithms with a Gaussian Wake Model

Wind Energy Prediction in Highly Complex Terrain by Computational Fluid Dynamics

Multirotor UAV-based platform for the measurement of atmospheric turbulence: validation and signature detection of tip vortices of wind turbine blades.

Multi-Objective Wind Farm Layout Optimization with unconstrained Area Shape

Three-dimensional wind-turbine wake characterization via tomographic particle-image velocimetry

Large-Eddy Simulation of Yawed Wind-Turbine Wakes: Comparisons with Wind Tunnel Measurements and Analytical Wake Models

Characterization of Wind Turbine Wakes with Nacelle-Mounted Doppler LiDARs and Model Validation in the Presence of Wind Veer

Wind-Turbine and Wind-Farm Flows: A Review

Wind Turbine Wakes in Directionally Varying Wind Shears