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This study demonstrates how wind farm flow physics influence noise generation and downstream propagation through numerical simulations. The flow field is modeled using large-eddy simulations (LES), and the time-averaged output serves as…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-20 J. Colas , A. Emmanuelli , D. Dragna , R. J. A. M. Stevens

A good understanding of wind turbine noise propagation is relevant to better measure the impact of turbines on the environment. In this study, we developed numerical simulations to study the impact of a 2D hill on the sound propagation for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-07-28 Jules Colas , Ariane Emmanuelli , Didier Dragna , Richard Stevens , Philippe Blanc-Benon

Analytical wake models need formulations to mimic the impact of wind turbines on turbulence level in the wake region. Several correlations can be found in the literature for this purpose, one of which is the formula proposed in A. Crespo,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-25 Navid Zehtabiyan-Rezaie , Mahdi Abkar

Wind turbines operating within wind farms experience complex aerodynamic loading arising from the interplay between wake-induced velocity deficits, enhanced turbulence, and varying operational conditions. Understanding the relationship…

So-called engineering or analytical wind farm flow solvers typically build upon two submodels: one for the velocity deficit and one for the wake-added turbulence intensity. While velocity deficit modelling has received considerable…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-01 Frédéric Blondel , Erwan Jézéquel , Helen Schottenhamml , Majid Bastankhah

The understanding of interaction effects between marine energy converters represents the next step in the research process that should eventually lead to the deployment of such devices. Although some a priori considerations have been…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-10-21 Paul Mycek , Benoît Gaurier , Grégory Germain , Grégory Pinon , Elie Rivoalen

The flows behind a model wind turbine under two turbine operating regimes are investigated using wind tunnel experiments and large-eddy simulations. Measurements from the model wind turbine experiment reveal that the power coefficient and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-02-13 Daniel Foti , Xiaolei Yang , Filippo Campagnolo , David Maniaci , Fotis Sotiropoulos

Wind turbines operating in the atmospheric boundary layer are constantly exposed to time-varying flow conditions. These disturbances often occur on similar time scales to wind-turbine controllers, which may interfere with wind-farm control…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-23 Nathaniel J. Wei , Adina Y. Fleisher , John W. Kurelek , Marcus N. Hultmark

As wind farms continue to grow in size, mesoscale effects such as blockage and gravity waves become increasingly important. Allaerts & Meyers (J. Fluid Mech., 2019) proposed an atmospheric perturbation model (APM) that can simulate the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-31 Koen Devesse , Luca Lanzilao , Johan Meyers

Anthropogenic underwater noise from offshore wind turbines is a growing environmental concern, particularly with the large-scale deployment of bottom-fixed and floating devices. This study presents a physics-based vibroacoustic framework to…

Wind turbine's wake, being convectively unstable, may behave as an amplifier of upstream perturbations and make the downstream turbine experience strong inflow fluctuations. In this work, we investigate the effects of the side-to-side…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-02-02 Zhaobin Li , Guodan Dong , Xiaolei Yang

Wake interaction is a key factor limiting the performance of floating offshore wind turbine arrays, yet the combined influence of inflow turbulence structure and platform motion on wake dynamics remains poorly understood. This study…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-03 Ahmad Nabhani , Josep M. Bergada

Noise generated by wind turbines is significantly impacted by its propagation in the atmosphere. Hence, for annoyance issues an accurate prediction of sound propagation is critical to determine noise levels around wind turbines. This study…

The present work aims to study the cavitating turbulent flow of a full-scale marine propeller and explore the physical mechanism underpinning the underwater radiated noise. We employ the standard dynamic large eddy simulation for the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-05-27 Zhi Cheng , Suraj Kashyap , Brendan Smoker , Giorgio Burella , Rajeev Jaiman

Numerous studies have shown that wind turbine wakes within a large wind farm bring about changes to both the dynamics and thermodynamics of the atmospheric boundary layers (ABL). Previously, we investigated the relative humidity budget…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-09-02 Adrian Sescu , John Haywood , Kevin Adkins

Floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) are subjected to platform motion induced by wind and wave loads. The oscillatory movement trigger vortex instabilities, modifying the wake structure, influencing the flow reaching downstream wind…

Understanding wind turbine wake mixing and recovery is critical for improving the power generation and structural stability of downwind turbines in a wind farm. In the field, where incoming flow and turbine operation are constantly…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-05-09 Aliza Abraham , Jiarong Hong

The unsteady flow physics of wind-turbine wakes under dynamic forcing conditions are critical to the modeling and control of wind farms for optimal power density. Unsteady forcing in the streamwise direction may be generated by unsteady…

Wind-wave interactions impose wind forcing on wave surface and wave effects on turbulent wind structures, which essentially influences the wind-wave loading on structures. Existing research treats the wind and wave loading separately and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-06 Tianqi Ma , Chao Sun

The large-scale expansion of wind farms has prompted community debate regarding adverse impacts of wind farm noise (WFN). One of the most annoying and potentially sleep disturbing components of WFN is amplitude modulation (AM). Here we…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-06-07 Phuc D. Nguyen , Kristy L. Hansen , Peter Catcheside , Colin Hansen , Branko Zajamsek
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