Towards practical dynamic induction control of wind farms: analysis of optimally controlled wind-farm boundary layers and sinusoidal induction control of first-row turbines

Munters, Wim; Meyers, Johan

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-3-409-2018

Articles | Volume 3, issue 1

Wind Energ. Sci., 3, 409–425, 2018

https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-3-409-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Wind Energ. Sci., 3, 409–425, 2018

https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-3-409-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 3, issue 1

Research article 18 Jun 2018

Research article | 18 Jun 2018

Towards practical dynamic induction control of wind farms: analysis of optimally controlled wind-farm boundary layers and sinusoidal induction control of first-row turbines

Wim Munters and Johan Meyers

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review of wes-2018-15', Anonymous Referee #1, 06 Apr 2018
- AC1: 'Reply to RC1', Wim Munters, 23 May 2018
RC2: 'Referee Comments wes-2018-15', Anonymous Referee #2, 16 Apr 2018
- AC2: 'Reply to RC2', Wim Munters, 23 May 2018

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Wim Munters on behalf of the Authors (23 May 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (05 Jun 2018) by Sandrine Aubrun

ED: Publish as is (05 Jun 2018) by Joachim Peinke(Chief Editor)

Short summary

Wake interactions in wind farms result in power losses for downstream turbines. We aim to mitigate these losses through coordinated control of the induced slowdown of the wind by each turbine. We further analyze results from earlier work towards the utilization of such control strategies in practice. Coherent vortex shedding is identified and mimicked by a sinusoidal control. The latter is shown to increase power in downstream turbines and is robust to turbine spacing and turbulence intensity.