Toward ultra-efficient high fidelity predictions of wind turbine wakes: Augmenting the accuracy of engineering models via LES-trained machine learning
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| author | Santoni, Christian Zhang, Dichang Zhang, Zexia Samaras, Dimitris Sotiropoulos, Fotis Khosronejad, Ali |
| author_facet | Santoni, Christian Zhang, Dichang Zhang, Zexia Samaras, Dimitris Sotiropoulos, Fotis Khosronejad, Ali |
| contents | This study proposes a novel machine learning (ML) methodology for the efficient and cost-effective prediction of high-fidelity three-dimensional velocity fields in the wake of utility-scale turbines. The model consists of an auto-encoder convolutional neural network with U-Net skipped connections, fine-tuned using high-fidelity data from large-eddy simulations (LES). The trained model takes the low-fidelity velocity field cost-effectively generated from the analytical engineering wake model as input and produces the high-fidelity velocity fields. The accuracy of the proposed ML model is demonstrated in a utility-scale wind farm for which datasets of wake flow fields were previously generated using LES under various wind speeds, wind directions, and yaw angles. Comparing the ML model results with those of LES, the ML model was shown to reduce the error in the prediction from 20% obtained from the GCH model to less than 5%. In addition, the ML model captured the non-symmetric wake deflection observed for opposing yaw angles for wake steering cases, demonstrating a greater accuracy than the GCH model. The computational cost of the ML model is on par with that of the analytical wake model while generating numerical outcomes nearly as accurate as those of the high-fidelity LES. |
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| spellingShingle | Toward ultra-efficient high fidelity predictions of wind turbine wakes: Augmenting the accuracy of engineering models via LES-trained machine learning Santoni, Christian Zhang, Dichang Zhang, Zexia Samaras, Dimitris Sotiropoulos, Fotis Khosronejad, Ali Fluid Dynamics This study proposes a novel machine learning (ML) methodology for the efficient and cost-effective prediction of high-fidelity three-dimensional velocity fields in the wake of utility-scale turbines. The model consists of an auto-encoder convolutional neural network with U-Net skipped connections, fine-tuned using high-fidelity data from large-eddy simulations (LES). The trained model takes the low-fidelity velocity field cost-effectively generated from the analytical engineering wake model as input and produces the high-fidelity velocity fields. The accuracy of the proposed ML model is demonstrated in a utility-scale wind farm for which datasets of wake flow fields were previously generated using LES under various wind speeds, wind directions, and yaw angles. Comparing the ML model results with those of LES, the ML model was shown to reduce the error in the prediction from 20% obtained from the GCH model to less than 5%. In addition, the ML model captured the non-symmetric wake deflection observed for opposing yaw angles for wake steering cases, demonstrating a greater accuracy than the GCH model. The computational cost of the ML model is on par with that of the analytical wake model while generating numerical outcomes nearly as accurate as those of the high-fidelity LES. |
| title | Toward ultra-efficient high fidelity predictions of wind turbine wakes: Augmenting the accuracy of engineering models via LES-trained machine learning |
| topic | Fluid Dynamics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07938 |