Comparative Study of the Inline Configuration Wind Farm

Abstract

This research provides an in-depth analysis of the flow around the rotor and in the wake of a single horizontal axis wind turbine (HAWT) model at different free stream velocities and tip speed ratios (TSRs). Moreover, it extracts some recommendations that might be beneficial for large-scale projects such as wind farm layout design and power output prediction. For this purpose, modeling and experimental testing of a wind tunnel test section, including a single wind turbine model inside were created and validated against present experimental data of the same model. The large Eddy simulation (LES) was used as a numerical approach to model the Navier–Stokes equations. The computational domain was divided into two areas: rotational and stationary. The unsteady rigid body motion (RBM) model was adopted to represent the rotor rotation accurately.