An investigation into DIC using free vortex wake methods: Identifying the optimal dynamic induction control law to trigger effective wake mixing in a two turbine system

Wind farm control is an area of research that looks to maximise the performance of individual but most importantly the collective performance of wind farms. The performance of turbines located in a wind farm is heavily dependent on the effects of turbine wakes, and improving the efficiency of wind farms by mitigating the wake effects is an...

Robust energy production optimization of a wind farm using wake steering by calibrating the FLORIS model on SCADA data

Wind farms experience significant efficiency losses due to the aerodynamic interaction between turbines. A possible control technique to reduce these losses to a minimum is yaw-based wake steering. This thesis investigates the feasibility of this technique by calibrating a surrogate model called the FLOw Redirection and Induction in Steady-state...