Wind tunnel study on power output and yaw moments for two yaw-controlled model wind turbines

Bartl, Jan; Mühle, Franz; Sætran, Lars

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-3-489-2018

Articles | Volume 3, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-3-489-2018

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

https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-3-489-2018

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

Articles | Volume 3, issue 2

Research article

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15 Aug 2018

Research article |

| 15 Aug 2018

Wind tunnel study on power output and yaw moments for two yaw-controlled model wind turbines

Jan Bartl, Franz Mühle, and Lars Sætran

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

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RC1: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #1, 18 Apr 2018
- AC1: 'Answers to RC#1', Jan Bartl, 08 Jun 2018
RC2: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #2, 20 Apr 2018
- AC2: 'Authors' response to referee #2', Jan Bartl, 08 Jun 2018
RC3: 'Good paper, some improvements are required', Anonymous Referee #3, 10 May 2018
- AC3: 'Authors' response to referee #3', Jan Bartl, 08 Jun 2018

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

AR by Jan Bartl on behalf of the Authors (09 Jun 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (25 Jun 2018) by Raúl Bayoán Cal

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (05 Jul 2018)

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (11 Jul 2018)

RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (13 Jul 2018)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (23 Jul 2018) by Raúl Bayoán Cal

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (26 Jul 2018) by Jakob Mann (Chief editor)

AR by Jan Bartl on behalf of the Authors (27 Jul 2018) Manuscript

Short summary

Our experimental wind tunnel study on a pair of model wind turbines demonstrates a significant potential of turbine yaw angle control for the combined optimization of turbine power and rotor loads. Depending on the turbines' relative positions to the incoming wind, a combined power increase and individual rotor load reduction can be achieved by operating the turbine rotors slightly misaligned with the main wind direction (i.e., at a certain yaw angle).