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An improved analytical framework for flow prediction inside and downstream of wind farms
Fernando Porté Agel, Marwa Souaiby
This study evaluates available analytical wake models for flow prediction inside and downstream of wind farms of different sizes and layouts using large-eddy simulation (LES), and introduces an enhanced analytical framework. All the tested analytical wake ...
2024Enhancing Wind Farm Performance through Axial Induction and Tilt Control: Insights from Wind Tunnel Experiments
Fernando Porté Agel, Guillem Armengol Barcos
Static axial induction control and tilt control are two strategies that have the potential to increase power production in wind farms, mitigating wake effects and increasing the available power for downstream turbines. In this study, wind tunnel experiment ...
Basel2024Towards an improved understanding of wind turbine wakes in complex terrain
In this thesis, we explored the effect of certain terrain-induced flow phenomena on the development of wind turbines sited in complex terrain. A combined experimental and analytical approach is used to study wind turbine wakes in different types of complex ...
EPFL2024Power performance of a model floating wind turbine subjected to cyclic pitch motion: A wind tunnel study
Fernando Porté Agel, Guiyue Duan, Daniele Gattari
Offshore floating wind turbines (OFWTs) are becoming increasingly popular due to their ability to exploit deep-sea wind resources. However, since wind turbines are installed on floaters instead of solid foundations, the dynamic response of an OFWT due to ...
2024Method for wind harvesting and wind rejection in flying drones
Dario Floreano, Charalampos Vourtsis, Victor Casas Rochel, Nathan Samuel Müller, William John Stewart
The present invention concerns a method of manoeuvring a vertical take-off and landing, unmanned aerial drone (100) comprising at least an aerodynamic surface (101), wherein, during a flight of the drone, the aerodynamic surface generates lift and/or drag ...
2024Wind farm power density optimization according to the area size using a novel self-adaptive genetic algorithm
Fernando Porté Agel, Nicolas Otto Kirchner Bossi
This work studies the power density (PD) optimization in wind farms, and its sensitivity to the available area size. A novel genetic algorithm (PDGA) is introduced, which optimizes PD and the turbine layout, by self-adapting to the PD and to the solutions ...
Oxford2023A wind tunnel study on cyclic yaw control: Power performance and wake characteristics
Fernando Porté Agel, Arslan Salim Dar, Guiyue Duan
In this study, wind-tunnel experiments are used to investigate cyclic yaw control as a wake mitigation strategy aiming to improve wind farm power production. The control strategy is applied to a single wind turbine and a wind farm comprising of a column of ...
2023Including the turbulent Schmidt number in the dynamic wake meandering model
Fernando Porté Agel, Peter Andreas Brugger, Corey Dean Markfort
Wind turbine wakes are an important source of power losses and mechanical wear within wind farms. Wake meandering is a low-frequency oscillation of the entire wind turbine wake with respect to the time-averaged centerline. It affects power losses by contri ...
2023A wind tunnel study on cyclic yaw control in a wind farm model
Fernando Porté Agel, Guiyue Duan
Dynamic control strategies, such as dynamic induction control [1], were reported as efficient and beneficial in improving wind farm power production. A recent work based on computational fluid dynamics simulation [2] shows that by controlling wake meanderi ...
2023Maximum Wind Energy Production (MaxWEP): Maximizing Winter Production of Energy by Exploiting Terrain Potential
Michael Lehning, Wolf Hendrik Huwald, Jérôme François Sylvain Dujardin, Franziska Gerber, Fanny Kristianti, Sebastian Wilhelm Hoch
The objective of this project has been to explore the potential of the wind over complex terrain, as an energy source during wintertime in Switzerland. A wind assessment method is developed based on short-term wind profile measurements with a wind lidar, l ...
Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE2023