Wind Turbine Yaw Control

A wind turbine only captures full power when its rotor faces the wind squarely. This simulator models the active yaw drive that keeps a turbine nacelle tracking a shifting wind direction: a deadband stops the drive from chasing every small gust, a rate limit caps how fast the nacelle can physically turn, and the resulting yaw misalignment angle γ feeds the empirical cos^p(γ) power-loss law used across the wind industry. Watch the 3D turbine yaw itself into alignment, switch to manual control to hold a fixed heading and watch power collapse as the wind wanders, and tune the loss exponent to compare turbine designs.