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Articles | Volume 9, issue 1
Articles | Volume 9, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-65-2024
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https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-65-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 9, issue 1
Research article
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16 Jan 2024
Research article |  | 16 Jan 2024

Towards real-time optimal control of wind farms using large-eddy simulations

Nick Janssens and Johan Meyers

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Proper wind farm control may vastly contribute to Europe's plan to go carbon neutral. However, current strategies don't account for turbine–wake interactions affecting power extraction. High-fidelity models (e.g., LES) are needed to accurately model this but are considered too slow in practice. By coarsening the resolution, we were able to design an efficient LES-based controller with real-time potential. This may allow us to bridge the gap towards practical wind farm control in the near future.
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