Evaluating Wake Models for Wind Farm Control

Paul Fleming, Kathryn Johnson, Jennifer Annoni, Peter Seiler, Pieter Gebraad

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Abstract

Wind turbines are typically operated to maximize their own performance without considering the impact of wake effects on nearby turbines. There is the potential to increase total power and reduce structural loads by properly coordinating the individual turbines in a wind farm. The effective design and analysis of such coordinated controllers requires turbine wake models of sufficient accuracy but low computational complexity. This paper first formulates a coordinated control problem for a two-turbine array. Next, the paper reviews several existing simulation tools that range from low-fidelity, quasi-static models to high-fidelity, computational fluid dynamic models. These tools are compared by evaluating the power, loads, and flow characteristics for the coordinated two-turbine array. The results in this paper highlight the advantages and disadvantages of existing wake models for design and analysis of coordinated wind farm controllers.

Original languageAmerican English
Pages2517-2523
Number of pages7
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Event2014 American Control Conference, ACC 2014 - Portland, OR, United States
Duration: 4 Jun 20146 Jun 2014

Conference

Conference2014 American Control Conference, ACC 2014
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPortland, OR
Period4/06/146/06/14

NREL Publication Number

  • NREL/CP-5000-61407

Keywords

  • Modeling and simulation

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