Evaluation of wind concentrator in a single-row wind farm

Identifier:  TFM:1850

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TFM1850

Authors:  Rosales Cardenal, María Manuela

Abstract:
An evaluation in CFD steady-state RANS of the use of a concentrator in a real case of a single-row modeled wind farm consisting of 5 units Gamesa G97/2MW-HH80 in flat terrain to optimize the wind energy production of the concentrated system. The concentrated system was set on the first three wind turbines, which were covered with a solid concentrator of 810 m x 12 m (L x h) tested at three upwind distances xt/h: 2, 4, and 7. By testing several actuator disk methods, best findings were 18.49% of wind power capacity increment at 2h.