WakeBlaster

Fast, reliable, and accurate 3D CFD wind farm flow simulation

Wind turbines are often sited in wind farms where losses due to wake effects can be substantial. Our signature product WakeBlaster offers cost effective and fast, yet accurate 3D CFD modelling of wake losses. WakeBlaster is used to assess wind farms, offshore and onshore, and is available as a cloud based service.

The WakeBlaster Model

The development of WakeBlaster in 2017 was supported in part by a grant from InnovateUK and three major wind farm operators contributed wind farm data to the development effort. Technical details of the WakeBlaster model were presented to the scientific community at the Wind Energy Science Conference (WESC) 2019 and published as a peer reviewed publication in Wind Energy Science 2020. Recent developments updating the model were presented at WESC ‘23.

WESC'19 Theory and Verification

WES'19: WakeBlaster Theory (e)

WESC'23 Validation of Model Update

Application Cases

WakeBlaster is a versitile tool that can be used in different application scenarios. Some example applications that are making use of the WakeBlaster API are presented below:

EOW'17 Real Time Simulator

WE '17 Wind Farm Performance

WindTech '18 Operational Data Analysis

GOW'18 Layout Optimisation

WE'18 Onshore Wind Farm Yield

WE-RA'19 Stubby Towers

WETech'23 Curved Flow

WETech'23 Wake Correction

Validation / Benchmarks

WakeBlaster has been validated using data for a wide range of wind farms. The model verification and validation (V&V) was carried out against wind speed measurements and performance data from full scale wind farms.

IPF'18: V&V Offshore

WEurope '18 Onshore Uncertainty

Whitepaper'18 Offshore Case Lillgrund

WESC '19 Onshore V&V

W.Energy '20: Onshore 3rd Party

IOP '20: Offshore 3rd Party

WRG'20 IEA OWABench

WETech'23 Waketester 3rd party

Workflow Integration

WakeBlaster is available directly from PPE or 3rd party distributors.

WakeBlaster is interfaced in:

Call WakeBlaster from your preferred 3rd party software:

Openwind by UL (external link)

WindPRO by EMD (external link)

SIFT by Bitbloom (external link)

A WakeBlaster subscription supports multiple users in your company, the any of the software packages above, and can also be used via the API using your own software:

WakeBlaster API:

WakeBlaster can easily be integrated into your own software or workflow. WakeBlaster comes with an API that allows to access WakeBlaster from a software development environment of your choice. The guide WakeBlaster Getting Started gives you a first introduction. To demonstrate how one could use the WakeBlaster API with Python an SDK and toolbox functions are available. Please contact us for more information and assistance if you would like to integrate WakeBlaster in your software or workflow.

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