Atmospheric Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel Applications in Wind Turbine Siting
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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 assessments of potential wind farms in complex terrain by surveying the flow near the surface. Several examples of wind energy related studies carried out in the University of California, Davis (UCD) ABLWT are presented.
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