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Power curves for wind energy converters (WECs) provide an essential relation between wind speed and electrical power output. The current industry standard IEC 61400-12-1 defines a unified procedure for the derivation of power curves. Recently, a novel method has been proposed to obtain power curves for WECs from high frequency data of power output P(t) and wind speed measurements u(t), the dynamical or Langevin power curve P L (u). This approach models the short-time dynamics of the wind power conversion as a relaxation process, driven by the turbulent wind. In this contribution, we show the independence of the Langevin approach from the turbulence characteristics of the inflow.
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Mücke, T., Wächter, M., Milan, P., Peinke, J. (2012). Numerical Modeling of a WECs Power Performance under the Influence of Atmospheric and Synthetic Wind Fields. In: Oberlack, M., Peinke, J., Talamelli, A., Castillo, L., Hölling, M. (eds) Progress in Turbulence and Wind Energy IV. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 141. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28968-2_35
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