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End-to-end wind turbine wake modelling with deep graph representation learning

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APPLIED ENERGY
Volume 339, Issue -, Pages -

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ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2023.120928

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Geometric deep learning; Graph neural networks; Computational fluid dynamics; Wind turbine wake modelling; Wind farm power

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This study proposes a surrogate model for wind turbine wake modelling based on a state-of-the-art graph neural network. The model operates directly on unstructured meshes and has been validated against high-fidelity data, showing its ability to accurately predict 3D flow fields. The proposed graph neural network is flexible and general, making it applicable to various computational fluid dynamics simulations.
Wind turbine wake modelling is of crucial importance to accurate resource assessment, to layout optimisation, and to the operational control of wind farms. This work proposes a surrogate model for the representation of wind turbine wakes based on a state-of-the-art graph representation learning method termed a graph neural network. The proposed end-to-end deep learning model operates directly on unstructured meshes and has been validated against high-fidelity data, demonstrating its ability to rapidly make accurate 3D flow field predictions for various inlet conditions and turbine yaw angles. The specific graph neural network model employed here is shown to generalise well to unseen data and is less sensitive to over-smoothing compared to common graph neural networks. A case study based upon a real world wind farm further demonstrates the capability of the proposed approach to predict farm scale power generation. Moreover, the proposed graph neural network framework is flexible and highly generic and as formulated here can be applied to any steady state computational fluid dynamics simulations on unstructured meshes.

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