General
Wind turbine wake modelling is crucial to optimizing future wind farm layouts and hence reducing the cost of energy. This exercise presents a blind test on modelling controlled and uncontrolled wind turbine wakes and comparing numerical predictions against wind tunnel measurements. The exercise is split into two phases, as described below. Participants are invited to submit their results by December 2024.
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Phase I – Open Data Set
Participants are invited to simulate the baseline case, in which both turbines are aligned with the flow and there is no control on either turbine. The objective of this phase is to ensure all participants can benchmark their numerical approach against a baseline, open data set, where no wake control is applied. Experimental measurements include inflow velocity, pressure variation on the wind tunnel wall, turbine power and loads for a range of tip speed ratios.
Find out more here and submit your results using the specific "Phase I - Submission Form"
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Phase II – Blind Test
In Phase II, the wake of the upstream turbine will be actively controlled employing the Helix approach and the performance of the downstream turbine will be recorded. This will be a blind test with the measured data not released prior to submissions. The objective of this phase is to benchmark different numerical approaches, quantify uncertainty and to enhance confidence and trust in numerical techniques and drive relevant advancements.
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