Virtual Assessment & Optimisation of Wind Farm Configuration
Although the performance of an individual wind turbine can now be predicted with an adequate level of accuracy within design condition, it is impractical to use this technology to assess the performance of turbines grouped in wind farms and affected by the local terrain. This work demonstrates a new CFD-based wind farm optimisation methodology that combines a simplified wind turbine CFD treatment with a statistically based optimisation procedure. The new methodology is used to optimise an on-shore wind farm that uses a simplified but generic cost function in order to demonstrate the power of the new methodology.
