WindFarmer: Analyst Videos

As the number of wind farm installations grow and neighbouring wind farms become more common, the energy loss from wakes can become the most significant loss for a project. Use the validated WindFarmer: Analyst wake models to accurately predict wake effects and turbulence for each turbine. The energy model calculates the annual energy prediction and quantifies the magnitude of wind sector management, hysteresis and wake losses. The Eddy Viscosity model is WindFarmer: Analyst’s leading wake model. It uses a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) algorithm to calculate the wind speed, energy losses and turbulence increases caused by wakes of turbines within a farm. The Eddy Viscosity model has been heavily optimized and makes use of parallel processing, enabling the evaluation of wakes for 10,000 wind speed and direction flow cases for 100 turbines in under 10 minutes on a desktop computer or a project.