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Articles | Volume 5, issue 4
Articles | Volume 5, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-5-1359-2020
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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
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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, Andreas Dörnbrack, and Julie K. Lundquist

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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.
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