Does the rotational direction of a wind turbine impact the wake in a stably stratified atmospheric boundary layer?

Englberger, Antonia; Dörnbrack, Andreas; Lundquist, Julie K.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-5-1359-2020

Articles | Volume 5, issue 4

Wind Energ. Sci., 5, 1359–1374, 2020

https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-5-1359-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Wind Energ. Sci., 5, 1359–1374, 2020

https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-5-1359-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 5, issue 4

Research article 22 Oct 2020

Research article | 22 Oct 2020

Does the rotational direction of a wind turbine impact the wake in a stably stratified atmospheric boundary layer?

Antonia Englberger et al.

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Final revised paper (published on 22 Oct 2020)
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RC1: 'Review of Manuscript # wes-2019-45', Anonymous Referee #1, 10 Sep 2019
- AC1: 'Answers to Anonymous Referee 1 on the paper 'Does the rotational direction of a wind turbine impact the wake in a stably stratified atmospheric boundary layer?'', Antonia Englberger, 31 Oct 2019
RC2: 'Review of manuscript: Does the rotational direction of a wind turbine impact the wake in a stably stratified atmospheric boundary layer? by Englberger et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 29 Sep 2019
- AC2: 'Answers to Anonymous Referee 2 on the paper 'Does the rotational direction of a wind turbine impact the wake in a stably stratified atmospheric boundary layer?'', Antonia Englberger, 31 Oct 2019

Peer-review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Lorena Grabowski on behalf of the Authors (21 Nov 2019) Author's response

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (21 Nov 2019) by Johan Meyers

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (04 Dec 2019)

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (06 Jan 2020)

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (14 Feb 2020) by Johan Meyers

AR by Anna Mirena Feist-Polner on behalf of the Authors (02 Jul 2020) Author's response

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (11 Aug 2020) by Johan Meyers

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (27 Aug 2020)

ED: Publish as is (08 Sep 2020) by Johan Meyers

ED: Publish as is (08 Sep 2020) by Jakob Mann(Chief Editor)

Short summary

At night, the wind direction often changes with height, and this veer affects structures near the surface like wind turbines. Wind turbines usually rotate clockwise, but this rotational direction interacts with veer to impact the flow field behind a wind turbine. If another turbine is located downwind, the direction of the upwind turbine's rotation will affect the downwind turbine.