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Power Production and Blade Fatigue of a Wind Turbine Array Subjected to Active Yaw Control

Lin, Mou  
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Porte-Agel, Fernando  
March 1, 2023
Energies

This study investigated the power production and blade fatigue of a three-turbine array subjected to active yaw control (AYC) in full-wake and partial-wake configurations. A framework of a two-way coupled large eddy simulation (LES) and an aeroelastic blade simulation was applied to simulate the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) flow through the turbines and the structural responses of the blades. The mean power outputs and blade fatigue loads were extracted from the simulation results. By exploring the feasible AYC decision space, we found that in the full-wake configuration, the local power-optimal AYC strategy with positive yaw angles endures less flapwise blade fatigue and more edgewise blade fatigue than the global power-optimal strategy. In the partial-wake configuration, applying positive AYC in certain inflow wind directions achieves higher optimal power gains than that in the full-wake scenario and reduces blade fatigue from the non-yawed benchmark. Using the blade element momentum (BEM) theory, we reveal that the aforementioned differences in flapwise blade fatigue are due to the differences in the azimuthal distributions of the local relative velocity on blade sections, resulting from the vertical wind shear and blade rotation. Furthermore, the difference in the blade force between the positively and negatively yawed front-row turbine induces different wake velocities and turbulence distributions, causing different fatigue loads on the downwind turbine exposed to the wake.

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research article
DOI
10.3390/en16062542
Web of Science ID

WOS:000958396400001

Author(s)
Lin, Mou  
Porte-Agel, Fernando  
Date Issued

2023-03-01

Publisher

MDPI

Published in
Energies
Volume

16

Issue

6

Article Number

2542

Subjects

Energy & Fuels

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wind power

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wind turbine fatigue

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active yaw control

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wake control

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maximization

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farms

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les

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April 24, 2023
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