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29 Jul 2024
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Dynamic performance of a passively self-adjusting floating wind farm layout to increase the annual energy production
Mohammad Youssef Mahfouz
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Stuttgart Wind Energy, University of Stuttgart, Allmandring 5B, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
Ericka Lozon
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), 15013 Denver W Pkwy, Golden, CO 80401, USA
Matthew Hall
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), 15013 Denver W Pkwy, Golden, CO 80401, USA
Po Wen Cheng
Stuttgart Wind Energy, University of Stuttgart, Allmandring 5B, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 2175–2193, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-2175-2024, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-2175-2024, 2024
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Fiona Dominique Lüdecke, Martin Schmid, and Po Wen Cheng
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 1527–1545, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1527-2024, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1527-2024, 2024
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Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 1053–1068, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1053-2024, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1053-2024, 2024
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Christian W. Schulz, Stefan Netzband, Umut Özinan, Po Wen Cheng, and Moustafa Abdel-Maksoud
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Moritz Gräfe, Vasilis Pettas, Julia Gottschall, and Po Wen Cheng
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Feng Guo, David Schlipf, and Po Wen Cheng
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Yiyin Chen, Feng Guo, David Schlipf, and Po Wen Cheng
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Vasilis Pettas, Matthias Kretschmer, Andrew Clifton, and Po Wen Cheng
Wind Energ. Sci., 6, 1455–1472, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-6-1455-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-6-1455-2021, 2021
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Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2019-81, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2019-81, 2019
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Publication in WES not foreseen
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Patrick Connolly and Curran Crawford
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As climate change increasingly impacts our daily lives, a transition towards cleaner energy is needed. With all the growth in floating offshore wind and the planned floating wind farms (FWFs) in the next few years, we urgently need new techniques and methodologies to accommodate the differences between the fixed bottom and FWFs. This paper presents a novel methodology to decrease aerodynamic losses inside an FWF by passively relocating the downwind floating wind turbines out of the wakes.
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