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Large-eddy simulation of an atmospheric bore and associated gravity wave effects on wind farm performance in the southern Great Plains
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, USA
Robert S. Arthur
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, USA
Aliza Abraham
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado, USA
Sonia Wharton
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, USA
Raghavendra Krishnamurthy
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, USA
Rob Newsom
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, USA
Brian Hirth
National Wind Institute, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA
John Schroeder
Department of Geosciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA
Patrick Moriarty
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado, USA
Fotini K. Chow
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
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Adam S. Wise, James M. T. Neher, Robert S. Arthur, Jeffrey D. Mirocha, Julie K. Lundquist, and Fotini K. Chow
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Miguel Sanchez Gomez, Julie K. Lundquist, Jeffrey D. Mirocha, Robert S. Arthur, and Domingo Muñoz-Esparza
Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2021-57, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2021-57, 2021
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Peter Brugger, Mithu Debnath, Andrew Scholbrock, Paul Fleming, Patrick Moriarty, Eric Simley, David Jager, Jason Roadman, Mark Murphy, Haohua Zong, and Fernando Porté-Agel
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A wind turbine can actively influence its wake by turning the rotor out of the wind direction to deflect the wake away from a downstream wind turbine. This technique was tested in a field experiment at a wind farm, where the inflow and wake were monitored with remote-sensing instruments for the wind speed. The behaviour of the wake deflection agrees with the predictions of two analytical models, and a bias of the wind direction perceived by the yawed wind turbine led to suboptimal power gains.
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Wind farms can be subject to rapidly changing weather events. In the United States Great Plains, some of these weather events can result in waves in the atmosphere that ultimately affect how much power a wind farm can produce. We modeled a specific event of waves observed in Oklahoma. We determined how to accurately model the event and analyzed how it affected a wind farm’s power production, finding that the waves both decreased power and made it more variable.
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