Accurate Wind Farm Flow Modeling

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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.

■ 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

Download - Full Validation Manual

Download - Full Validation Manual

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)

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For ACADEMICS

Free access for doctoral thesis and collaborative research projects

For Industrials

GreenWITS offers commercial services and industrial software featuring FarmShadow™

FarmShadow™ use cases

Academic & Research applications

INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS OF FarmShadow™

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

DEVELOPMENT ROADMAP