In order to maximize the total power generation of a wind farm, several control strategies based on tilt angle, yaw angle, and cone angle were investigated numerically using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation. The full rotor model (FRM) of 5 MW wind turbine was used to simulate the wake in the wind farm. According to the comparison of different cases' power generations and velocity fields, the result indicates that appropriate strategies based on tilt angle and positive yaw angle have effective improvements on the power output of whole wind farm, but changing cone angle and opposite yaw angle result in negative effects.
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