FAST.Farm load validation for single wake situations at alpha ventus

Kretschmer, Matthias; Jonkman, Jason; Pettas, Vasilis; Cheng, Po Wen

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-6-1247-2021

Articles | Volume 6, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-6-1247-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-6-1247-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 6, issue 5

Research article

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17 Sep 2021

Research article |

| 17 Sep 2021

FAST.Farm load validation for single wake situations at alpha ventus

Matthias Kretschmer, Jason Jonkman, Vasilis Pettas, and Po Wen Cheng

Model code and software

FAST.Farm with wake-added turbulence Bonnie Jonkman, Rafael M. Mudafort, Andy Platt, Mike Sprague, Ganesh Vijayakumar, Marshall Buhl, Shreyas Ananthan, Marco Masciola, Michael J. Schmidt, E. Branlard, jjonkman, Jon Rood, rdamiani, ashesh2512, Kurt Bendl, pschuenemann, psakievich, Nobuhiro KUSUNO, Tony Martinez, robynnemurrayNREL, Ben Mertz, Charilaos Mylonas, IAbda, Jenni Rinker, Markus Friedrich, Pete Bachant, Rob Hammond, lapadron, lssraman, Matt Hall, and Matthias Kretschmer https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4733599

Short summary

We perform a validation of the new simulation tool FAST.Farm for the prediction of power output and structural loads in single wake conditions with respect to measurement data from the offshore wind farm alpha ventus. With a new wake-added turbulence functionality added to FAST.Farm, good agreement between simulations and measurements is achieved for the considered quantities. We hereby give insights into load characteristics of an offshore wind turbine subjected to single wake conditions.