| Author(s) | Filippo Campagnolo, Johannes Schreiber, Carlo L. Bottasso |
| Journal | |
| Year | 2020 |
| DOI / Link | 10.23919/ACC45564.2020.9147449 |
| Keywords | Wind turbines;Wind tunnels;Wind farms;Rotors;Wind speed;Table lookup;Computational modeling |
The paper studies the effects of model fidelity on the performance of a robust open-loop wake deflection controller. For this purpose, a small cluster of scaled turbines is operated in a boundary layer wind tunnel, where wind direction changes are simulated by a rotating turntable. Results indicate that better models lead to improved power gains and reduced fatigue loading, motivating the development of improved accuracy wind farm flow models.