Optimization-Based Calibration of FAST.Farm Parameters Against SOWFA: Preprint

Conference · Thu Jan 04 00:00:00 EST 2018

OSTI ID:1416519

Moreira, Paula D ^[1]; Annoni, Jennifer ^[1]; Jonkman, Jason ^[1]; Ghate, Aditya S ^[2]

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1. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
2. Stanford University

FAST.Farm is a medium-delity wind farm modeling tool that can be used to assess power and loads contributions of wind turbines in a wind farm. The objective of this paper is to undertake a calibration procedure to set the user parameters of FAST.Farm to accurately represent results from large-eddy simulations. The results provide an in- depth analysis of the comparison of FAST.Farm and large-eddy simulations before and after calibration. The comparison of FAST.Farm and large-eddy simulation results are presented with respect to streamwise and radial velocity components as well as wake-meandering statistics (mean and standard deviation) in the lateral and vertical directions under different atmospheric and turbine operating conditions.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), NREL Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD); USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Wind and Water Technologies Office (EE-4W)
• DOE Contract Number: AC36-08GO28308
• OSTI ID: 1416519
• Report Number(s): NREL/CP-5000-70533
• Resource Relation: Conference: Presented at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics SciTech Forum 2018, 8-12 January 2018, Kissimmee, Florida
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

17 WIND ENERGY
yaw
calibration
FAST Farm
SOWFA
wind modeling tool
wind farms
large-eddy simulations
wake meandering