Boundary-layer development and gravity waves in conventionally neutral wind farms

Interaction between large wind farms and the atmospheric boundary layer

Accurate prediction of atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) flow and its interactions with wind turbines is of great importance for optimizing the design and efficiency of wind farms. This study first focuses on recent efforts to develop and validate a large-eddy simulation (LES) framework for wind-energy applications. The subgrid-scale turbulent fluxes of momentum and heat are parameterized using ...

Atmospheric Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel Applications in Wind Turbine Siting

Atmospheric boundary layer wind tunnels (ABLWTs) have been used for 40 years to simulate the interaction of the wind and earth in the lowest few hundred meters of the atmosphere. ABLWTs are well-suited for investigating flow in complex terrain and have different strengths and weaknesses than numerical modeling. There are a wide variety of applications, including performing wind resource assessm...

Turbulent flow structure in experimental laboratory wind-generated gravity waves

balance and inertia–gravity waves in a two-layer baroclinic model

balance, breakdown of balance, and generation of inertia–gravity waves in vortical flows are fundamental topics of prime importance in geophysical fluid dynamics. this research aims to find the optimum balance relation as well as the rossby-number variation of the spontaneous generation of inertia–gravity waves in a baroclinic, two-layer, boussinesq model on a doubly-periodic f-plane geometry f...

An optimal control framework for dynamic induction control of wind farms and their interaction with the atmospheric boundary layer

Complex turbine wake interactions play an important role in overall energy extraction in large wind farms. Current control strategies optimize individual turbine power, and lead to significant energy losses in wind farms compared with lone-standing wind turbines. In recent work, an optimal coordinated control framework was introduced (Goit & Meyers 2015 J. Fluid Mech.768, 5-50 (doi:10.1017/jfm....