Implementation of a vortex particle scheme to analyze the wake of a wind turbine modeled using actuator lines

The efficiency of a wind turbine depends largely on the wake of the upstream turbine. Seeking to contribute towards the development of a wind farm solver using a Lagrangian scheme to analyze the wake, this thesis analyses and validates (using MATLAB) a Vortex Particle Method (VPM) algorithm by simulating the behavior of vortex rings. Due to the...