August 11, 2025Wind energy scienceOpen Access

Wake development in floating wind turbines: new insights and an open dataset from wind tunnel experiments

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Evidence shows that surge and pitch motions cause significant thrust fluctuations in floating wind turbines, impacting wake development.
Measurements indicated a maximum wake velocity fluctuation amplitude at a reduced frequency of 0.6 during various platform motions.
Conducted using a 1:75-scale wind turbine model, the analysis assessed rotor loads and wake dynamics across substantial distances.
The findings may enhance future large-scale floating wind farm designs, highlighting the importance of motion-induced wake effects.

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Wind tunnel experiments reveal wake development impacts on rotor loads in floating turbines, indicating improved design insights.

Fontanella et al. (2025) studied this question.

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