Review of computational fluid dynamics for wind turbine wake aerodynamics

By Benjamin Sanderse, van der Sander Pijl, Barry Koren. 2011

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This article reviews the state-of-the-art numerical calculation of wind turbine wake aerodynamics. Different computational fluid dynamics techniques for modeling the rotor and the wake are discussed. Regarding rotor modeling, recent advances in the generalized actuator approach and the direct model are discussed, as far as it attributes to the wake description. For the wake, the focus is on the different turbulence models that are employed to study wake effects on downstream turbines.

Subfields: Aerospace Engineering, Computational Mechanics, Environmental Engineering

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Wind turbine wake properties: Comparison between a non-rotating simplified wind turbine model and a rotating model (2013, background): “or Large-Eddy-Simulation to compute the steady and unsteady flows through modelled or real rotors [16, 15, 19].”
Atmospheric Turbulence Effects on Wind-Turbine Wakes: An LES Study (2012, neutral): “[3], and Sørensen [4]).”
Comparison of wind farm large eddy simulations using actuator disk and actuator line models with wind tunnel experiments (2018, methodology): “it cannot capture flow details such as tip vortices that are captured well using high resolution ALM simulation [1,12].”
Wind-Turbine and Wind-Farm Flows: A Review (2019, methodology): “…for substantial power losses, due to the reduced wind speed in the wakes, as well as increased fatigue loads and associated maintenance costs, due to the augmented turbulence levels (e.g., see reviews by Vermeer et al. 2003; Sanderse et al. 2011; Stevens and Meneveau 2017, and references therein).”
Optimization of wind plant layouts using an adjoint approach (2017, background): “(Sanderse et al., 2011), the determination of uref for waked turbines or in complex terrain is more difficult.”
A concurrent precursor inflow method for Large Eddy Simulations and applications to finite length wind farms (2014, methodology): “5 are in good agreement to these prior results [29, 2, 30].”