On the performance of the helix wind farm control approach in the conventionally neutral atmospheric boundary layer

Journal Article (2023)
Author(s)

E. Taschner (TU Delft - Team Jan-Willem van Wingerden)

A.A.W. van Vondelen (TU Delft - Team Jan-Willem van Wingerden)

R.A. Verzijlbergh (Whiffle, TU Delft - Energy and Industry)

J.W. Wingerden (TU Delft - Team Jan-Willem van Wingerden)

Research Group
Team Jan-Willem van Wingerden
Copyright
© 2023 E. Taschner, A.A.W. van Vondelen, R.A. Verzijlbergh, J.W. van Wingerden
DOI related publication
https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2505/1/012006
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Publication Year
2023
Language
English
Copyright
© 2023 E. Taschner, A.A.W. van Vondelen, R.A. Verzijlbergh, J.W. van Wingerden
Research Group
Team Jan-Willem van Wingerden
Issue number
1
Volume number
2505
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Abstract

The performance of wind farms can substantially increase when their individual turbines deviate from their own greedy control strategy and instead also take into account downstream turbines operating in the wake. The helix approach is a recently introduced dynamic wind farm control strategy that tackles this issue by leveraging individual pitch control to accelerate wake recovery. Its effective implementation requires detailed knowledge about the scaling between control input and the resulting power gain and turbine loading across the farm. In the present work this scaling is explored by means of large-eddy simulation of a two-turbine farm in the conventionally neutral atmospheric boundary layer. A parameter sweep for the amplitude of the helix is performed showing monotonous increase of the farm's power output with increasing pitch amplitude within the considered range of zero to six degrees. The scaling of the power gain suggests that a threshold amplitude should be exceeded for effective speed-up of the wake recovery, whereas the damage equivalent loads computed for the turbines indicate an upper limit for the amplitude despite increasing power gains.