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Feng, Z. (author), Ferrari, Riccardo M.G. (author), van Wingerden, J.W. (author), Liu, Y. (author)Wind turbines may experience local weather perturbation, which is not taken into account by the commonly-used wind turbine simulation packages. Without this information, it is extremely challenging to evaluate the controller performance with regard to the effect of the variation of local atmospheric conditions. On the other side, it is too...conference paper 2023
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Gonzalez Silva, J. (author), Ferrari, Riccardo M.G. (author), van Wingerden, J.W. (author)As renewable energy sources such as wind farms become dominant, new challenges emerge for operating and controlling them. Traditionally, wind farm control aims to dispatch power set-points to individual turbines to maximize energy extraction and, thus, their usage as assets. Yet, grid balance and frequency support are fundamental in presence...journal article 2023
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van Vondelen, A.A.W. (author), Navalkar, S.T. (author), Iliopoulos, Alexandros (author), van der Hoek, D.C. (author), van Wingerden, J.W. (author)To increase the contribution of offshore wind energy to the global energy mix in an economically sustainable manner, it is required to reduce the costs associated with the production and operation of offshore wind turbines (OWTs). One of the largest uncertainties and sources of conservatism in design and lifetime prediction for OWTs is the...review 2022
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Becker, M. (author), Allaerts, D.J.N. (author), van Wingerden, J.W. (author)Wind farm control methods allow for a more flexible use of wind power plants over the baseline operation. They can be used to increase the power generated, to track a reference power signal or to reduce structural loads on a farm-wide level. Model-based control strategies have the advantage that prior knowledge can be included, for instance by...journal article 2022
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Liu, Y. (author), Pamososuryo, A.K. (author), Mulders, S.P. (author), Ferrari, Riccardo M.G. (author), van Wingerden, J.W. (author)The estimation of the rotor effective wind speed is used in modern wind turbines to provide advanced power and load control capabilities. However, with the ever increasing rotor sizes, the wind field over the rotor surface shows a higher degree of spatial variation. A single effective wind speed estimation therefore limits the attainable...journal article 2022
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Liu, Y. (author), Pamososuryo, A.K. (author), Ferrari, Riccardo M.G. (author), van Wingerden, J.W. (author)The Immersion and Invariance (II) wind speed estimator is a powerful and widely-used technique to estimate the rotor effective wind speed on horizontal axis wind turbines. Anyway, its global convergence proof is rather cumbersome, which hinders the extension of the method and proof to time-delayed and/or uncertain systems. In this letter, we...journal article 2022
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Gutierrez Santiago, U. (author), Sisón, Alfredo Fernández (author), Polinder, H. (author), van Wingerden, J.W. (author)Accurate knowledge of the input torque in wind turbine gearboxes is key to improving their reliability. Traditionally, rotor torque is measured using strain gauges bonded to the shaft. Transferring the resulting signal from the rotating shaft to a stationary data acquisition system while powering the sensing devices is complex and costly. The...journal article 2022
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Liu, Y. (author), Ferrari, Riccardo M.G. (author), van Wingerden, J.W. (author)Individual pitch control (IPC) is a well-known approach to reduce blade loads on wind turbines. Although very effective, IPC usually requires high levels of actuator activities, which significantly increases the pitch actuator duty cycle (ADC). This will subsequently result in an increase of the wear on the bearings of the blades and a decrease...journal article 2022
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Meyers, Johan (author), Bottasso, Carlo (author), Dykes, Katherine (author), Fleming, Paul (author), Gebraad, Pieter (author), Giebel, Gregor (author), Gocmen, Tuhfe (author), van Wingerden, J.W. (author)Wind farm control has been a topic of research for more than two decades. It has been identified as a core component of grand challenges in wind energy science to support accelerated wind energy deployment and to transition to a clean and sustainable energy system for the 21st century. The prospect of collective control of wind turbines in an...review 2022
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Göçmen, Tuhfe (author), Campagnolo, Filippo (author), Eguinoa, Irene (author), Imširović, Lejla (author), Qian, Guowei (author), Dighe, V.V. (author), Becker, M. (author), van den Broek, M.J. (author), van Wingerden, J.W. (author), Stock, Adam (author)Wind farm flow control (WFFC) is a topic of interest at several research institutes and industry and certification agencies worldwide. For reliable performance assessment of the technology, the efficiency and the capability of the models applied to WFFC should be carefully evaluated. To address that, the FarmConners consortium has launched a...journal article 2022
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Becker, M. (author), Ritter, Bastian (author), Doekemeijer, B.M. (author), van der Hoek, D.C. (author), Konigorski, Ulrich (author), Allaerts, D.J.N. (author), van Wingerden, J.W. (author)In this paper, a new version of the FLOw Redirection and Induction Dynamics (FLORIDyn) model is presented. The new model uses the three-dimensional parametric Gaussian FLORIS model and can provide dynamic wind farm simulations at a low computational cost under heterogeneous and changing wind conditions.<br/><br/>Both FLORIS and FLORIDyn are...journal article 2022
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van den Broek, M.J. (author), De Tavernier, D. (author), Sanderse, Benjamin (author), van Wingerden, J.W. (author)Wind farm flow control aims to improve wind turbine performance by reducing aerodynamic wake interaction between turbines. Dynamic, physics-based models of wind farm flows have been essential for exploring control strategies such as wake redirection and dynamic induction control. Free-vortex methods can provide a computationally efficient way...journal article 2022
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van der Hoek, D.C. (author), Frederik, J.A. (author), Huang, M. (author), Scarano, F. (author), Ferreira, Carlos (author), van Wingerden, J.W. (author)Dynamic induction control (DIC) has proven to be an effective method of increasing the power output for a wind farm in both simulation studies and wind tunnel experiments. By pitching the blades of a wind turbine periodically, the recovery of the low-velocity wake is accelerated, thereby increasing the energy available to downstream turbines....journal article 2022
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van den Berg, D. (author), De Tavernier, D. (author), van Wingerden, J.W. (author)In recent years dynamic induction control has shown great potential in reducing wake-to-turbine interaction by increasing the mixing in the wake. With these wake mixing methods the thrust force will vary in time. If applied to a floating offshore wind turbine, it will cause the platform to move. In this paper the effect of the Helix mixing...journal article 2022
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Frederik, J.A. (author), van Wingerden, J.W. (author)In recent studies, the effectiveness of different so-called wake mixing strategies has been assessed in terms of wind farm power maximization. These studies show that by dynamically varying the pitch angles of a wind turbine, wake mixing can be enhanced to increase the overall power production of a wind farm. However, such strategies also...journal article 2022
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Muscari, C. (author), Schito, P. (author), Viré, A.C. (author), Zasso, A. (author), van der Hoek, D.C. (author), van Wingerden, J.W. (author)Dynamic Induction Control (DIC) is a novel, exciting branch of Wind Farm Control. It makes use of time-varying control inputs to increase wake mixing, and consequently improve the velocity recovery rate of the flow and the power production of downstream turbines. The Pulse and the Helix are two promising DIC strategies that rely on sinusoidal...journal article 2022
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Becker, M. (author), Allaerts, D.J.N. (author), van Wingerden, J.W. (author)This paper presents a new framework of the FLOw Redirection and Induction Dynamics (FLORIDyn) model. It is able to dynamically simulate the wake behaviour in wind farms under heterogeneous and changing environmental conditions at a low computational cost. The novelty of this work is the improved segregation of wake dynamics and wake influence...journal article 2022
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Brandetti, L. (author), Liu, Y. (author), Mulders, S.P. (author), Ferreira, Carlos (author), Watson, S.J. (author), van Wingerden, J.W. (author)In recent years, industrial controllers for modern wind turbines have been designed as a combined wind speed estimator and tip-speed ratio (WSE-TSR) tracking control scheme. In contrast to the conventional and widely used Kω 2 torque control strategy, the WSE-TSR scheme provides flexibility in terms of controller responsiveness and...journal article 2022
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Pamososuryo, A.K. (author), Liu, Y. (author), Hovgaard, T. G. (author), Ferrari, Riccardo M.G. (author), van Wingerden, J.W. (author)The wind turbine side-side tower motion is known to be lightly damped. One viable active damping solution is realized by deploying individual pitch control (IPC) such that counteracting blade forces are created to alleviate the tower fatigue loading caused by this motion. Existing IPC methods for side-side tower damping in the literature,...journal article 2022
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Dighe, V.V. (author), Becker, M. (author), Göcmen, Tuhfe (author), Sanderse, Benjamin (author), van Wingerden, J.W. (author)FLORIDyn is a parametric control-oriented dynamic model suitable to predict the dynamic wake interactions between wind turbines in a wind farm. In order to improve the accuracy of FLORIDyn, this study proposes to calibrate the tuning parameters present in the model by employing a probabilistic setting using the UQ4WIND framework. The strategy...journal article 2022