wiz - Wake and induction zone

Wake and induction zone models for wind farm calculations.

Please note that this repository is still under active development.

Four main induction models are implemented:

• "VC": vortex cylinder (VC) model
• "VCFF": vortex cylinder model with a far-field (FF) approximation to speed up calculations
• "VD": vortex dipole model
• "SS": self-similar model of Troldborg et al.

QuickStart

Cloning, getting dependencies, installing local package and running tests:

git clone https://github.com/ebranlard/wiz
cd wiz
python -m pip install --user -r requirements.txt     # install requirements
python -m pip install -e .                           # install as local package
make                                                 # run tests 

If the unittests do not run, check the installation process and post an issue.

If you wish to use FLORIS, continue with the following commands:

git submodule update --init
cd floris
python -m pip install --user -r requirements.txt     # install requirements
python -m pip install -e .                           # install as local package

Standalone examples for induction-zone / vorticity models

Found in the following folders:

• wiz\examples: the high level scripts WindTurbine.py and WindFarm.py provide examples to compute the velocity field about a wind turbine or wind farm. Other scripts in this repository use lower level examples
• wiz\article_*: the scripts in this folder reproduce some plots presented in publications by the authors. They can be run as standalone and are also part of the unittests.
• wiz\*.py: unittests are present in most files.

Examples with FLORIS coupling

Found in the folder coupling_examples

References and how to cite

The latest paper describing this repository is the following:

@article{Branlard:2020induction,
    title = {Assessing the blockage effect of wind turbines and wind farms using an analytical vortex model},
    author = {E. Branlard and A. R. {Meyer Forsting}},
    journal = {Wind Energy},
    volume = {23},
    number = {11},
    pages = {2068-2086},
    doi = {https://doi.org/10.1002/we.2546},
    year = "2020",
}

Older references are given below:

@INPROCEEDINGS{Branlard:2015induction,
    title     = "Using a cylindrical vortex model to assess the induction zone infront of aligned and yawed rotors",
    author    = "E. Branlard and A. {Meyer Forsting}",
    year      = "2015",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of EWEA Offshore 2015 Conference"
}
@article{branlard:2014right,
    title = {Cylindrical vortex wake model: right cylinder},
    author = {E. Branlard and M. Gaunaa},
    journal = {Wind Energy},
    pages = {1-15},
    year = {2014},
    volume = {524},
    number = {1},
    issn = {10954244, 10991824},
    doi = {10.1002/we.1800}
}

Contributing

Any contributions to this project are welcome! If you find this project useful, you can also buy me a coffee (donate a small amount) with the link below: