Pieter Gebraad

4.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
36 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Pieter Gebraad is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Control and Systems Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Pieter Gebraad has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 22 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 8 papers in Control and Systems Engineering. Recurrent topics in Pieter Gebraad's work include Wind Energy Research and Development (27 papers), Wind Turbine Control Systems (19 papers) and Wind and Air Flow Studies (8 papers). Pieter Gebraad is often cited by papers focused on Wind Energy Research and Development (27 papers), Wind Turbine Control Systems (19 papers) and Wind and Air Flow Studies (8 papers). Pieter Gebraad collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and Denmark. Pieter Gebraad's co-authors include Paul Fleming, J.W. van Wingerden, Jan‐Willem van Wingerden, Lucy Y. Pao, Katherine Dykes, Matthew Churchfield, Jason R. Marden, Andrew Ning, Shalom Ruben and Kathryn Johnson and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Renewable Energy and IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology.

In The Last Decade

Pieter Gebraad

33 papers receiving 2.6k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Wind plant power optimization through yaw control using a parametric model for wake effects-a CFD simulation study

2014 519 citations Pieter Gebraad, J.W. van Wingerden et al. Wind Energy profile →
Evaluating techniques for redirecting turbine wakes using SOWFA

2014 354 citations Paul Fleming, Pieter Gebraad et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Pieter Gebraad Netherlands	23	2.4k	1.2k	1.1k	790	350	36	2.7k
Jennifer Annoni United States	20	1.4k 0.6×	683 0.6×	730 0.6×	523 0.7×	192 0.5×	43	1.6k
J.W. van Wingerden Netherlands	21	1.6k 0.6×	833 0.7×	547 0.5×	505 0.6×	575 1.6×	70	1.9k
Katherine Dykes United States	22	1.2k 0.5×	533 0.4×	644 0.6×	339 0.4×	154 0.4×	76	1.6k
J.G. Schepers Netherlands	23	2.3k 0.9×	348 0.3×	1.5k 1.3×	1.0k 1.3×	134 0.4×	62	2.4k
Majid Bastankhah United Kingdom	10	2.3k 0.9×	507 0.4×	1.5k 1.3×	961 1.2×	111 0.3×	22	2.4k
Andrew Scholbrock United States	20	1.3k 0.5×	687 0.6×	609 0.5×	361 0.5×	265 0.8×	39	1.5k
David Schlipf Germany	28	1.8k 0.7×	999 0.8×	621 0.5×	517 0.7×	594 1.7×	101	2.3k
Leo Jensen Denmark	14	1.3k 0.5×	607 0.5×	912 0.8×	492 0.6×	157 0.4×	23	1.8k
Filippo Campagnolo Germany	20	1.3k 0.5×	367 0.3×	654 0.6×	531 0.7×	173 0.5×	73	1.4k
Eric Simley United States	23	1.3k 0.5×	582 0.5×	734 0.6×	351 0.4×	216 0.6×	59	1.5k

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Gebraad, Pieter, et al.. (2026). Optimizing the operation of energy islands with predictive nonlinear programming – a case study based on the Princess Elisabeth Energy Island. Wind energy science. 11(2). 349–372.

Lacerda, Vinícius Albernaz, et al.. (2025). An Optimal Power Flow Tool for AC/DC Systems, Applied to the Analysis of the North Sea Grid for Offshore Wind Integration. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. 40(5). 4278–4291. 1 indexed citations

Gomis‐Bellmunt, Oriol, et al.. (2024). AC energy islands for the optimal integration of offshore wind energy resources: Operation strategies using multi-objective nonlinear programming. Sustainable Energy Grids and Networks. 40. 101576–101576. 1 indexed citations

López, Ana María, et al.. (2024). The impacts of climate change on offshore wind park projects: from changes in resource to project profitability. Journal of Physics Conference Series. 2767(9). 92085–92085. 2 indexed citations

Gebraad, Pieter, et al.. (2024). Evaluating the potential of a wake steering co-design for wind farm layout optimization through a tailored genetic algorithm. Wind energy science. 9(11). 2113–2132. 1 indexed citations

Meyers, Johan, Carlo L. Bottasso, Katherine Dykes, et al.. (2022). Wind farm flow control: prospects and challenges. Wind energy science. 7(6). 2271–2306. 120 indexed citations

Boersma, Sjoerd, Bart Doekemeijer, Pieter Gebraad, et al.. (2017). A tutorial on control-oriented modeling and control of wind farms. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1–18. 145 indexed citations

Boersma, Sjoerd, Pieter Gebraad, Mehdi Vali, Bart Doekemeijer, & J.W. van Wingerden. (2016). A control-oriented dynamic wind farm flow model: “WFSim”. Journal of Physics Conference Series. 753. 32005–32005. 28 indexed citations

Fleming, Paul, Matthew Churchfield, Andrew Scholbrock, et al.. (2016). Detailed field test of yaw-based wake steering. Journal of Physics Conference Series. 753. 52003–52003. 33 indexed citations

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Gebraad, Pieter, Paul Fleming, & J.W. van Wingerden. (2015). Wind turbine wake estimation and control using FLORIDyn, a control-oriented dynamic wind plant model. 1702–1708. 32 indexed citations

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Annoni, Jennifer, Pieter Gebraad, Andrew Scholbrock, Paul Fleming, & Jan‐Willem van Wingerden. (2015). Analysis of axial‐induction‐based wind plant control using an engineering and a high‐order wind plant model. Wind Energy. 19(6). 1135–1150. 158 indexed citations

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Gebraad, Pieter, Paul Fleming, & J.W. van Wingerden. (2015). Comparison of actuation methods for wake control in wind plants. 1695–1701. 30 indexed citations

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Gebraad, Pieter, Paul Fleming, Alan Wright, Katherine Dykes, & Jan‐Willem van Wingerden. (2015). Multidisciplinary Research on Wake Control in Wind Power Plants at NREL. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 1 indexed citations

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Simley, Eric, Lucy Y. Pao, Pieter Gebraad, & Matthew Churchfield. (2014). Investigation of the Impact of the Upstream Induction Zone on LIDAR Measurement Accuracy for Wind Turbine Control Applications using Large-Eddy Simulation. Journal of Physics Conference Series. 524. 12003–12003. 26 indexed citations

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Fleming, Paul, Pieter Gebraad, Sang Lee, et al.. (2014). Simulation comparison of wake mitigation control strategies for a two-turbine case. Wind Energy. 18(12). 2135–2143. 263 indexed citations

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Gebraad, Pieter. (2014). Data-driven wind plant control. Research Repository (Delft University of Technology). 26 indexed citations

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Annoni, Jennifer, Peter Seiler, Kathryn Johnson, Paul Fleming, & Pieter Gebraad. (2014). Evaluating wake models for wind farm control. 2517–2523. 48 indexed citations

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Fleming, P.J., Pieter Gebraad, J.W. van Wingerden, et al.. (2013). SOWFA Super-Controller: A High-Fidelity Tool for Evaluating Wind Plant Control Approaches. University of North Texas Digital Library (University of North Texas). 42 indexed citations

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Gebraad, Pieter, et al.. (2013). A model-free distributed approach for wind plant control. 57 indexed citations

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Gebraad, Pieter, Jan‐Willem van Wingerden, Paul Fleming, & Alan Wright. (2013). LPV Identification of Wind Turbine Rotor Vibrational Dynamics Using Periodic Disturbance Basis Functions. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology. 21(4). 1183–1190. 21 indexed citations

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