joint yaw-induction control
Jointly optimizing how each turbine is pointed and how hard it extracts energy, to raise the power of the whole wind farm.
Turbines in a wind farm shade one another with their wakes, so the way each turbine is operated affects the power of its neighbors. By jointly optimizing turbine yaw (pointing turbines slightly off the wind) and induction (how hard each turbine extracts energy), a farm can produce more power from the same turbines.
Paper: K. S. Heck, J. Liew, I. M. L. Upfal, and M. F. Howland, Wind Energy Science (2025, under review). DOI
Code: Howland-Lab/MITWindfarm