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20102026
most citedEffects of turbine spacing on the power output of extended wind-farms

157 citations · 1.1k across the 38 of their papers we have counts for

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41 papers

physics.flu-dyn2026

Actuator Disk Models reproduce Actuator Line Model power and thrust fluctuation statistics in wind farm simulations

Manuel Ayala, Dennice Gayme, Charles Meneveau

Actuator-disk models (ADM) are widely used in wind-farm simulations, but their accuracy in reproducing power and thrust temporal fluctuation statistics has not yet been compared to…

physics.soc-ph2026

Shift or curtail? How much data-center flexibility is worth depends on the host power grid

Saroj Khanal, Geon Roh, Boyu Yao +5

Data-center growth risks overbuilding power grid infrastructure and stranding capital. Flexible data-center operation can defer infrastructure investments, but its value depends on…

physics.flu-dyn2025

Generalised actuator disk theory: wake development with turbulent entrainment

Majid Bastankhah, Peter E. Hydon, Carl Shapiro +2

Classical actuator disk theory, developed more than a century ago, provides an idealised description of turbine rotor performance. It treats a rotor as an infinitesimally-thin perm…

physics.flu-dyn2024

An extended analytical wake model and applications to yawed wind turbines in atmospheric boundary layers with different levels of stratification and veer

Ghanesh Narasimhan, Dennice F. Gayme, Charles Meneveau

Analytical wake models provide a computationally efficient means to predict velocity distributions in wind turbine wakes in the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL). Most existing mode…

physics.flu-dyn2024

Surface Wave-Aerodynamic Roughness Length Model for Air-Sea Interactions

Manuel Ayala, Dennice Gayme, Charles Meneveau

A new model to evaluate the equivalent hydrodynamic length or surface roughness, z0, of ocean waves is developed and tested. The proposed Surface Wave-Aerodynamic Roughness Length…

physics.flu-dyn2024

A Moving Surface Drag Model for LES of Wind over Waves

Manuel Ayala, Zein Sadek, Ondřej Ferčák +3

Numerical prediction of the interactions between wind and ocean waves is essential for climate modeling and a wide range of offshore operations. Large Eddy Simulation (LES) of the…

physics.flu-dyn2023★ 20 cited

Analytical model coupling Ekman and surface layer structure in atmospheric boundary layer flows

Ghanesh Narasimhan, Dennice F. Gayme, Charles Meneveau

We introduce an analytical model that describes the vertical structure of Ekman boundary layer flows coupled to the Monin-Obukhov Similarity Theory (MOST) surface layer representat…

physics.flu-dyn2023

A structured input-output approach to characterizing optimal perturbations in wall-bounded shear flows

Chang Liu, Yu Shuai, Aishwarya Rath +1

This work builds upon recent work exploiting the notion of structured singular values to capture nonlinear interactions in the analysis of wall-bounded shear flows. In this context…

physics.flu-dyn2022★ 31 cited

Effects of wind veer on a yawed wind turbine wake in atmospheric boundary layer flow

Ghanesh Narasimhan, Dennice F. Gayme, Charles Meneveau

Large Eddy Simulations (LES) are used to study the effects of veer (the height-dependent lateral deflection of wind velocity due to Coriolis acceleration) on the evolution of wind…

physics.flu-dyn2022★ 13 cited

Structured input-output analysis of stably stratified plane Couette flow

Chang Liu, Colm-cille P. Caulfield, Dennice F. Gayme

We employ a recently introduced structured input-output analysis (SIOA) approach to analyze streamwise and spanwise wavelengths of flow structures in stably stratified plane Couett…

physics.flu-dyn2022

Spatial input-output analysis of large-scale structures in actuated turbulent boundary layers

Chang Liu, Igal Gluzman, Mitchell Lozier +4

This paper develops a spatial input-output approach to investigate the dynamics of a turbulent boundary layer subject to a localized single frequency excitation. This method uses o…

math.OC2021★ 1 cited

On the Stability, Economic Efficiency and Incentive Compatibility of Electricity Market Dynamics

Pengcheng You, Yan Jiang, Enoch Yeung +2

This paper focuses on the operation of an electricity market that accounts for participants that bid at a sub-minute timescale. To that end, we model the market-clearing process as…

math.OC2021

A Market Mechanism for Truthful Bidding with Energy Storage

Rajni Kant Bansal, Pengcheng You, Dennice F. Gayme +1

This paper proposes a market mechanism for multi-interval electricity markets with generator and storage participants. Drawing ideas from supply function bidding, we introduce a no…

physics.flu-dyn2021★ 66 cited

A vortex sheet based analytical model of the curled wake behind yawed wind turbines

Majid Bastankhah, Carl R. Shapiro, Sina Shamsoddin +2

Motivated by the need for compact descriptions of the evolution of non-classical wakes behind yawed wind turbines, we develop an analytical model to predict the shape of curled wak…

physics.flu-dyn2021★ 27 cited

Structured input-output analysis of transitional wall-bounded flows

Chang Liu, Dennice F. Gayme

Input-output analysis of transitional channel flows has proven to be a valuable analytical tool for identifying important flow structures and energetic motions. The traditional app…

math.OC2020

Storage Degradation Aware Economic Dispatch

R. K. Bansal, P. You, D. F. Gayme +1

In this paper, we formulate a cycling cost aware economic dispatch problem that co-optimizes generation and storage dispatch while taking into account cycle based storage degradati…

physics.flu-dyn2020★ 2 cited

The Area Localized Coupled Model for Analytical Mean Flow Prediction in Arbitrary Wind Farm Geometries

Genevieve M. Starke, Charles Meneveau, Jennifer R. King +1

This work introduces the Area Localized Coupled (ALC) model, which extends earlier approaches to coupling classical wake superposition and atmospheric boundary layer models in orde…

physics.flu-dyn2020★ 26 cited

An input-output inspired method for permissible perturbation amplitude of transitional wall-bounded shear flows

Chang Liu, Dennice F. Gayme

The precise set of parameters governing the transition to turbulence in wall-bounded shear flows remains an open question; many theoretical bounds have been obtained, but there is…

physics.flu-dyn2020★ 5 cited

Input-output framework for actuated boundary layers

Igal Gluzman, Dennice F. Gayme

This work extends the input-output approach to the study of wall-bounded shear flows manipulated using actuators common in experimental flow control studies. In particular, we adap…

physics.flu-dyn2020★ 21 cited

Generation and decay of counter-rotating vortices downstream of yawed wind turbines in the atmospheric boundary layer

Carl R. Shapiro, Dennice F. Gayme, Charles Meneveau

A quantitative understanding of the dominant mechanisms that govern the generation and decay of the counter-rotating vortex pair (CVP) produced by yawed wind turbines is needed to…

physics.flu-dyn2020★ 36 cited

An input-output based analysis of convective velocity in turbulent channels

Chang Liu, Dennice F. Gayme

This paper employs an input-output based approach to analyze convective velocities and the transport of fluctuations in turbulent channel flows. The convective velocity for a fluct…

eess.SY2019★ 1 cited

Performance of Single and Double-Integrator Networks over Directed Graphs

H. Giray Oral, Enrique Mallada, Dennice F. Gayme

This paper provides a framework to evaluate the performance of single and double integrator networks over arbitrary directed graphs. Adopting vehicular network terminology, we cons…

math.OC2019★ 3 cited

The Role of Strategic Load Participants in Two-Stage Settlement Electricity Markets

Pengcheng You, Dennice F. Gayme, Enrique Mallada

Two-stage electricity market clearing is designed to maintain market efficiency under ideal conditions, e.g., perfect forecast and nonstrategic generation. This work demonstrates t…

physics.flu-dyn2019★ 77 cited

Filtered actuator disks: Theory and application to wind turbine models in large eddy simulation

Carl R. Shapiro, Dennice F. Gayme, Charles Meneveau

The actuator disk model (ADM) continues to be a popular wind turbine representation in large eddy simulations (LES) of large wind farms. Computational restrictions typically limit…