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Explainable modeling for wind power forecasting: A Glass-Box model with high accuracy

Fernando Porté Agel, Jiannong Fang, Wenlong Liao

Machine learning models (e.g., neural networks) achieve high accuracy in wind power forecasting, but they are usually regarded as black boxes that lack interpretability. To address this issue, the paper proposes a glass-box model that combines high accurac ...

2025

Analytical Model for Mean Flow and Fluxes of Momentum and Energy in Very Large Wind Farms

Fernando Porté Agel, Corey Dean Markfort

2018

Effect of roof fence shape on flow over a building and its impact on wind turbine performance

Fabien Waridel, Fernando Porté Agel, Arslan Salim Dar

We investigate the effect of roof boundary fence shape on the flow over a cubic building and on the power and thrust performance of a roof-mounted wind turbine via wind-tunnel experiments. The effect of fence height, porosity, angle, and curvature is inves ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2025

Linear stability analysis of wind turbine wakes performed on wind tunnel measurements

Fernando Porté Agel, François Gallaire, Francesco Viola, Giacomo Valerio Iungo

Wind tunnel measurements were performed for the wake produced by a three-bladed wind turbine immersed in uniform flow. These tests show the presence of a vorticity structure in the near-wake region mainly oriented along the streamwise direction, which is d ...

Cambridge University Press2013

On the Development of a Dynamic Non-linear Closure for Large-Eddy Simulation of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer

Fernando Porté Agel, Hao Lu

A dynamic procedure is developed to compute the model coefficients in the recently introduced modulated gradient models for both momentum and scalar fluxes. The magnitudes of the subgrid-scale (SGS) stress and the SGS flux are estimated using the local equ ...

Springer2014

Wind Turbine Wakes in Directionally Varying Wind Shears

Fernando Porté Agel, Mahdi Abkar

In the atmospheric boundary layer, the Coriolis force associated with the Earth’s rotation induces a spanwise wind shear in addition to the wall-normal one leading to a continuous change in wind direction with height. The spanwise wind shear in directional ...

2019

Multi-rotor Wind Farm Layout Optimization

Fernando Porté Agel, Nicolas Otto Kirchner Bossi

Multi-rotor wind turbines have shown a faster wake recovery than equivalent single-rotor turbines. In this work the potential benefit of a wind farm with multi-rotor turbines is assessed through the optimization of the turbine positions using the CEGA wind ...

IOP Publishing2020

Three-dimensional wind-turbine wake characterization via tomographic particle-image velocimetry

Fernando Porté Agel, Arslan Salim Dar

Wind turbines are often sited on different topographical features. In the current work, we performed wind-tunnel measurements of the wake behind a single wind turbine sited on two escarpments differing in the windward side shape using tomographic particle- ...

IOP Publishing2020

Experimental investigation and analytical modelling of active yaw control for wind farm power optimization

Fernando Porté Agel, Haohua Zong

In this study, the physics and effectiveness of active yaw control under various wind conditions are investigated systematically, based on wind tunnel experiments and a new analytical wind farm model. The power and wake velocity measurements of a three-row ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2021

The effect of nacelle-to-rotor size on the wake of a miniature wind turbine

Fernando Porté Agel, Arslan Salim Dar

Wind tunnel experiments are performed to investigate the effect of nacelle-to-rotor size on the wake of a wind turbine under different Reynolds numbers. Four different turbine configurations are tested, which vary in the rotor diameter and nacelle length a ...

IOP Science2024

Effect of hills on wind turbine flow and power efficiency: A large-eddy simulation study

Fernando Porté Agel, Tristan Revaz

This study investigates the influence of topography on wind turbine flow and power efficiency. Specifically, a standalone wind turbine is positioned at the top of idealized two-dimensional hills, and the effects of hill geometry and turbine position are sy ...

AIP Publishing2024

Large-eddy simulation of flow and scalar dispersion in rural-to-urban transition regions

Fernando Porté Agel, Wai Chi Cheng

Large-eddy simulations (LES) are performed to simulate the flow and scalar transport in rural-to-urban transition regions. The LES framework is first validated with wind-tunnel experimental data of scalar dispersion within and above a staggered array of cu ...

Elsevier2016

A hybrid physics-based and data-driven model for intra-day and day-ahead wind power forecasting considering a drastically expanded predictor search space

Fernando Porté Agel, Nicolas Otto Kirchner Bossi, Gabriel Kathari

This work presents a novel hybrid (physics- and data -driven) model for short-term (intra-day and day-ahead, 3h -24h) wind power forecasting (STWPF). Traditionally, STWPF predictors admitted very few meteorological variables only from the grid points close ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2024

Flow Adjustment Inside and Around Large Finite-Size Wind Farms

Fernando Porté Agel, Ka Ling Wu

In this study, large-eddy simulations are performed to investigate the flow inside and around large finite-size wind farms in conventionally-neutral atmospheric boundary layers. Special emphasis is placed on characterizing the different farm-induced flow r ...

2017

Prediction of the hub vortex instability in a wind turbine wake: stability analysis with eddy-viscosity models calibrated on wind tunnel data

Fernando Porté Agel, François Gallaire, Francesco Viola, Giacomo Valerio Iungo

The instability of the hub vortex observed in wind turbine wakes has recently been studied by Iungo et al. (J. Fluid Mech., vol. 737, 2013, pp. 499–526) via local stability analysis of the mean velocity field measured through wind tunnel experiments. This ...

Cambridge University Press2014

Influence of incoming turbulent scales on the wind turbine wake: A large-eddy simulation study

Fernando Porté Agel, Dara Vahidi

In this study, we aim to investigate the influence of inflow turbulent length scales on wind turbine wakes. For this purpose, large-eddy simulations of the wake of a wind turbine are performed under neutral atmospheric conditions with different boundary la ...

AIP Publishing2024

Influence of atmospheric stability on wind-turbine wakes: A large-eddy simulation study

Fernando Porté Agel, Mahdi Abkar

In this study, large-eddy simulation is combined with a turbine model to investigate the influence of atmospheric thermal stability on wind-turbine wakes. The simulation results show that atmospheric stability has a significant effect on the spatial distri ...

American Institute of Physics2015

Large-Eddy Simulation of Atmospheric Boundary-Layer Flow Through a Wind Farm Sited on Topography

Fernando Porté Agel, Sina Shamsoddin

Large-eddy simulation (LES) has recently been well validated and applied in the context of wind turbines over flat terrain; however, to date its accuracy has not been tested systematically in the case of turbine-wake flows over topography. Here, we investi ...

Springer Verlag2017

A physics-based model for wind turbine wake expansion in the atmospheric boundary layer

Fernando Porté Agel, Dara Vahidi

Analytical wind turbine wake models are widely used to predict the wake velocity deficit. In these models, the wake growth rate is a key parameter specified mainly with empirical formulations. In this study, a new physics-based model is proposed and valida ...

Cambridge University Press2022

A model for the effect of pressure gradient on turbulent axisymmetric wakes

Fernando Porté Agel, Sina Shamsoddin

Turbulent axisymmetric wakes under pressure gradient have received little attention in the literature, in spite of their fundamental and practical importance, for example, in the case of wind turbine wakes over topography. In this paper, we develop an anal ...

Cambridge University Press2018