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Research article
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30 May 2024
Research article |
| 30 May 2024
| 30 May 2024
Wind tunnel investigations of an individual pitch control strategy for wind farm power optimization
Wind Energy Institute, Technical University of Munich, Boltzmannstr. 15, 85748 Garching bei München, Germany
Florian M. Heckmeier
Chair of Aerodynamics and Fluid Mechanics, Technical University of Munich, Boltzmannstr. 15, 85748 Garching bei München, Germany
Filippo Campagnolo
Wind Energy Institute, Technical University of Munich, Boltzmannstr. 15, 85748 Garching bei München, Germany
Christian Breitsamter
Chair of Aerodynamics and Fluid Mechanics, Technical University of Munich, Boltzmannstr. 15, 85748 Garching bei München, Germany
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Wind turbines influence each other, and these wake effects limit the power production of downstream turbines. Controlling turbines collectively and not individually can limit such effects. We experimentally investigate a control strategy increasing mixing in the wake. We want to see the potential of this so-called Helix control for power optimization and understand the flow physics. Our study shows that the control technique leads to clearly faster wake recovery and thus higher power production.
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