Articles | Volume 5, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-5-349-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-5-349-2020
Brief communication
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23 Mar 2020
Brief communication |  | 23 Mar 2020

Brief communication: A fast vortex-based smearing correction for the actuator line

Alexander R. Meyer Forsting, Georg R. Pirrung, and Néstor Ramos-García

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Actuator-Line-Smearing-Correction A. Meyer Forsting, G. Pirrung, and N. Ramos García https://doi.org/10.11583/DTU.9752285.v1

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Simulations of wind farms allow the estimation of the forces acting on the turbines and thus their lifetime and power production. Representing the actual geometric shape of turbines in a realistic atmospheric flow is computationally expensive; therefore they are modelled in a simplified manner. Unfortunately, these simplifications negatively impact the estimated forces. We developed an open-source aerodynamic model that corrects the forces, giving more accurate estimates of lifetime and power.
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