Abstract
We study wind farm wakes with large eddy simulations (LES) and use these results for the evaluation of engineering models such as the Jensen model, the coupled wake boundary layer model (CWBL), the Turbulence Optimized Park model (TurbOPark), and the wind farm model developed by Niayifar and Porté-Agel (Energies 9, 741 (2016)). We study how well these models capture the wake effects between two aligned wind farms with 72 turbines separated by 10 kilometers in a neutral boundary layer. We find that all considered models over-predict the wind farm wake recovery compared to what is observed in LES. The TurbOPark model predictions on the wind farm wake effect are closest to the LES results for the scenario considered here.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 012018 |
Journal | Journal of physics: Conference series |
Volume | 1934 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 8 Jun 2021 |
Event | Wake Conference 2021 - Virtual Conference, Visby, Sweden Duration: 15 Jun 2021 → 17 Jun 2021 |
Keywords
- wind energy
- wind turbine
- wind farm
- renewable energy
- turbulence
- fluid mechanics
- fluid dynamics
- large eddy simulation
- computational fluid dynamics
- power production
- electricity