Publications by Corey Dean Markfort

Improvements to the dynamic wake meandering model by incorporating the turbulent Schmidt number

Fernando Porté Agel, Peter Andreas Brugger, Corey Dean Markfort

Predictions of the dynamic wake meandering model (DWMM) were compared to flow measurements of a scanning Doppler lidar mounted on the nacelle of a utility-scale wind turbine. We observed that the wake meandering strength of the DWMM agrees better with the ...

2024

An improved statistical wake meandering model

Fernando Porté Agel, Peter Andreas Brugger, Corey Dean Markfort

A new statistical wake meandering (SWM) model is proposed that improves on existing models in the literature. Compared to the existing SWM models, the proposed model has a closed description that does not require simulations to create look-up tables while ...

IOP Publishing2024

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, Fernando Carbajo Fuertes, Corey Dean Markfort, 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

Analytical Model for Mean Flow and Fluxes of Momentum and Energy in Very Large Wind Farms

Fernando Porté Agel, Corey Dean Markfort, Weiwei Zhang

2018

Wind Turbine Wake Characterization with Nacelle-Mounted Wind Lidars for Analytical Wake Model Validation

Fernando Porté Agel, Corey Dean Markfort, Fernando Carbajo Fuertes

This study presents the setup, methodology and results from a measurement campaign dedicated to the characterization of full-scale wind turbine wakes under different inflow conditions. The measurements have been obtained from two pulsed scanning Doppler li ...

2018

Canopy-wake dynamics and wind sheltering effects on Earth surface fluxes

Fernando Porté Agel, Corey Dean Markfort

The atmospheric boundary layer adjustment at the abrupt transition from a canopy (forest) to a flat surface (land or water) is investigated in a wind tunnel experiment. Detailed measurements examining the effect of canopy turbulence on flow separation, red ...

Springer2014

Experimental study of the impact of large-scale wind farms on land-atmosphere exchanges

Fernando Porté Agel, Corey Dean Markfort, Wei Zhang

Large-scale wind farms, covering a significant portion of the land and ocean surface, may affect the transport of momentum, heat, mass and moisture between the atmosphere and the land locally and globally. To understand the wind-farm-atmosphere interaction ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2013

Wind-Turbine Wakes in a Convective Boundary Layer: A Wind-Tunnel Study

Fernando Porté Agel, Corey Dean Markfort, Wei Zhang

Thermal stability changes the properties of the turbulent atmospheric boundary layer, and in turn affects the behaviour of wind-turbine wakes. To better understand the effects of thermal stability on the wind-turbine wake structure, wind-tunnel experiments ...

Springer Netherlands2013

Near-wake flow structure downwind of a wind turbine in a turbulent boundary layer

Fernando Porté Agel, Corey Dean Markfort, Wei Zhang

Wind turbines operate in the surface layer of the atmospheric boundary layer, where they are subjected to strong wind shear and relatively high turbulence levels. These incoming boundary layer flow characteristics are expected to affect the structure of wi ...

Springer-Verlag2012

Wind sheltering of a lake by a tree canopy or bluff topography

Fernando Porté Agel, Corey Dean Markfort

[1] A model is developed to quantify the wind sheltering of a lake by a tree canopy or a bluff. The experiment-based model predicts the wind-sheltering coefficient a priori, without calibration, and is useful for one-dimensional (1-D) lake hydrodynamic and ...

American Geophysical Union2010