Harnessing the Power of Wind: Revolutionising Wind Farm Optimisation. This project aims to develop a rigorous, efficient and accurate framework for optimisation of control policies for complete wind f

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Harnessing the Power of Wind: Revolutionising Wind Farm Optimisation. This project aims to develop a rigorous, efficient and accurate framework for optimisation of control policies for complete wind farms. It expects to generate new knowledge in data-driven physics informed transient aerodynamic and structural modelling of entire wind farms, generation of low order yet sufficiently accurate models using machine learning, and game-theoretic and model predictive control techniques for operation of an entire wind farm. Expected outcomes are engineering tools to tackle wind farm inefficiencies totalling $700m/year in Australia alone, contributing to energy stability, security and lowered emissions aligned to the National Science and Research Priority ‘Energy’.. Scheme: Discovery Projects. Field: 4012 - Fluid Mechanics and Thermal Engineering. Lead: Prof Ian Manchester