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Chapter 38: Aerodynamics of Wake Steering

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This chapter discusses the mechanisms that enable wake steering within a wind farm with a focus on wake steering performed using yaw misaligned turbines as this is the most popular approach to wake steering, although there are others. Wake steering is a type of wind farm control in which wind turbines in a wind farm operate with an intentional yaw misalignment to mitigate the effects of its wake on downstream turbines in order to increase overall combined wind farm energy production. This chapter goes into detail regarding the dominant aerodynamic characteristics that are present when a turbine operates in yaw misaligned conditions and suggests analytical models that can capture these effects. A detailed analysis of large-scale flow structures generated in wind farm control through yaw misalignment is presented. A collection of counter-rotating vortices, produced from a misaligned turbine, deforms the shape of the wake and produces asymmetric effects with oppositely signed yaw angles. These vortices generated by an upstream misaligned turbine can also deflect wakes of downstream non-misaligned turbines. This chapter also addresses the importance of modeling these counter-rotating vortices in analytical models for wind farm control design and for accurately quantifying the impacts of wake steering on gains in power production in larger wind farms.

Research Organization:
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Wind Energy Technologies Office
DOE Contract Number:
AC36-08GO28308
OSTI ID:
1973767
Report Number(s):
NREL/CH-5000-74257; MainId:15013; UUID:430e20ca-f098-e911-9c24-ac162d87dfe5; MainAdminID:3491
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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