Abstract
Atmospheric stability conditions have an effect on wind turbine wakes. This is an important factor in wind farms in which the wake properties affect the performance of downstream turbines. In the stable atmosphere, wind direction shear has a lateral skewing effect on the wakes. In this paper, we describe changes to the FLOw Redirection and Induction in Steady-state (FLORIS) wake engineering model to incorporate and parameterize this effect.
Highlights
Atmospheric stability is a measure of the atmosphere’s tendency to promote or resist vertical mixing
We extend the FLOw Redirection and Induction in Steadystate (FLORIS) wake engineering model with the ability to laterally skew the wake to model the effect of wind direction shear in a stable atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) in a simplified, computationally efficient manner
Conclusion and future work This paper presented a method to incorporate atmospheric stability effects on the wake into FLOw Redirection and Induction in Steady-state (FLORIS), an engineering wake model that is an extension of the Jensen model
Summary
Atmospheric stability is a measure of the atmosphere’s tendency to promote or resist vertical mixing. We extend the FLOw Redirection and Induction in Steadystate (FLORIS) wake engineering model with the ability to laterally skew the wake to model the effect of wind direction shear in a stable atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) in a simplified, computationally efficient manner.
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