With the growing number of wind farms over the last few decades and the availability of large datasets, research in wind-farm flow modeling—one of the key components in optimizing the design and operation of wind farms—is shifting toward data-driven techniques. However, given that most current data-driven algorithms have been developed for canonical problems, the enormous complexity of fluid flows in real wind farms poses unique challenges for data-driven flow modeling. These include the high-dimensional multiscale nature of turbulence at high Reynolds numbers, geophysical and atmospheric effects, wake-flow development, and incorporating wind-turbine characteristics and wind-farm layouts, among others. In addition, data-driven wind-farm flow models should ideally be interpretable and have some degree of generalizability. The former is important to avoid a lack of trust in the models with end-users, while the most popular strategy for the latter is to incorporate known physics into the models. This article reviews a collection of recent studies on wind-farm flow modeling, covering both purely data-driven and physics-guided approaches. We provide a thorough analysis of their modeling approach, objective, and methodology and specifically focus on the data utilized in the reviewed works.
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June 01 2022
Data-driven fluid mechanics of wind farms: A review
Navid Zehtabiyan-Rezaie
;
Navid Zehtabiyan-Rezaie
1
Department of Mechanical and Production Engineering, Aarhus University
, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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Alexandros Iosifidis
;
Alexandros Iosifidis
2
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aarhus University
, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
3
Center for Digitalization, Big Data, and Data Analytics, Aarhus University
, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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Mahdi Abkar
Mahdi Abkar
a)
1
Department of Mechanical and Production Engineering, Aarhus University
, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
3
Center for Digitalization, Big Data, and Data Analytics, Aarhus University
, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
a)Author to whom correspondence should be addressed: abkar@mpe.au.dk
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J. Renewable Sustainable Energy 14, 032703 (2022)
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Received:
March 19 2022
Accepted:
April 25 2022
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Navid Zehtabiyan-Rezaie, Alexandros Iosifidis, Mahdi Abkar; Data-driven fluid mechanics of wind farms: A review. J. Renewable Sustainable Energy 1 May 2022; 14 (3): 032703. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0091980
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