Accurate Wind Farm Flow Modeling

FarmShadow™

Wind farm flow modeling tool designed for industrial R&D and collaborative research

Leveraging cutting-edge research in wake-added turbulence and velocity deficit modeling, combined with best-in-class superposition methods, FarmShadow™ provides wind developers with an unprecedented level of accuracy and robustness for their wind project development.
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 ■  Wake models: velocity deficit, wake-added-turbulence, wake deflection, blockage effects and meandering

 ■  Easy to use, updated with IFPEN research work and collaborative projects 

 ■  Models calibrated and validated with Large Eddy Simulations (LES), SCADA and wind tunnel data

MAIN advantages

Physically based tool, with analytical models, continuously updated by IFPEN research teams 
 
 ■  Accurate, reliable and fast wake modeling 
 ■  No site-specific tuning of model constants 
 ■  User-guide documentation with tutorials and validation cases 
 ■  Available on demand for academics and research purposes 
 ■  Used for industrial applications

VALIDATION
Wind tunnel & real site data comparisons 

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NON-EXHAUSTIVE LIST OF CURRENT AVAILABLE MODELS

Velocity deficit models
  • Super-Gaussian (Blondel, IFPEN) model
  • Gaussian (Bastankhah) model
  • Gaussian (Ishihara) model
+ Industrial standard models
  • Top-hat (Jensen) model
  • Eddy Viscosity (Ainslie) model
  • TurbOPark (Ørsted) model
  • DAC (DeepArrayCorrection) model
Wake-added-turbulence models
  • Double-Gaussian (Ishihara & Qian) model
  • Double-Gaussian (Tian) model
Dynamic wake models
  • Dynamic approach under development
Wake superposition models
  • Local-linear-sum
  • Momentum conserving
+ Industrial standard models
  • Quadratic superposition
  • Maximum value (for wake-added-turbulence)
Wake deflection models
  • Gaussian (Bastankhah) model
  • Super-Gaussian (Blondel, IFPEN) model
  • Top-hat (Jiménez) model
  • Crespo-Hernandez model
Blockage model
  • Vortex cylinder (Branlard)

Do you want to use FarmShadow™?

FarmShadow is welcoming new users 

FarmShadow™ use cases

Academic & Research applications

JIP FAME

Floating wind AEP calculation MEthodology

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CAP project

Wake steering & digital farm application

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IFP School program

OWPD (Offshore Wind Project Development)

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INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS OF FarmShadow™

GreenWITS offers commercial services and software solutions, each of them featuring FarmShadow™ 

DEVELOPMENT ROADMAP

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