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https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-613-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-613-2025
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25 Mar 2025
Research article |  | 25 Mar 2025

A large-eddy simulation analysis of collective wind farm axial-induction set points in the presence of blockage

Théo Delvaux and Johan Meyers

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Allaerts, D.: Large-eddy simulation of wind farms in conventionally neutral and stable atmospheric boundary layers, PhD thesis, KULeuven, Leuven, Belgium, https://lirias.kuleuven.be/1731391&lang=en (last access: 7 March 2025), 2016. a, b, c, d
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Allaerts, D. and Meyers, J.: Sensitivity and feedback of wind-farm-induced gravity waves, J. Fluid Mech., 862, 990–1028, 2019. a, b, c
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The work explores the potential for wind farm load reduction and power maximization. We carried out a series of high-fidelity large-eddy simulations for a wide range of atmospheric conditions and operating regimes. Because of turbine-scale interactions and large-scale effects, we observed that maximum power extraction is achieved at regimes lower than the Betz operating point. Thus, we proposed three simple approaches with which thrust significantly decreases with only a limited impact on power.
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