Open AccessTilted wind turbines in farm configuration for improved global efficiency
Author(s) -
François Trigaux,
Maud Moens,
Philippe Chatelain,
Grégoire Winckelmans
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1618/6/062035
Subject(s) - wake , wind power , turbine , environmental science , marine engineering , meteorology , power (physics) , tilt (camera) , planetary boundary layer , boundary layer , mechanics , aerospace engineering , structural engineering , engineering , physics , electrical engineering , quantum mechanics
The advance in wind turbine technology has led to a tendency to gather the turbines into wind farms to benefit from economies of scale. However, the farm configuration often leads to a drastic power loss due to the interactions between the turbines. To mitigate this issue, the turbines are typically misaligned with the dominant wind direction to deviate their wake. In this paper, a tilt-induced wake deviation strategy is studied in a farm configuration using large eddy simulation of an atmospheric boundary layer and an actuator line model for the blade. The results show an effective wake deviation and a significant increase of the total power production of the farm. The evolution of the time-averaged and unsteady loads is also assessed in the wind farm, and the resulting damage equivalent load is shown to be reasonably modified when the turbines are tilted. The tilted configuration is also compared with a wind farm with yawed turbines and is found to lead to a larger power output for a reduced damage equivalent load.