The curled wake model: a three-dimensional  and extremely fast steady-state wake  solver for wind plant flows

Martínez-Tossas, Luis A.; King, Jennifer; Quon, Eliot; Bay, Christopher J.; Mudafort, Rafael; Hamilton, Nicholas; Howland, Michael F.; Fleming, Paul A.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-6-555-2021

Articles | Volume 6, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-6-555-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-6-555-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 6, issue 2

Research article

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22 Apr 2021

Research article |

| 22 Apr 2021

The curled wake model: a three-dimensional and extremely fast steady-state wake solver for wind plant flows

Luis A. Martínez-Tossas, Jennifer King, Eliot Quon, Christopher J. Bay, Rafael Mudafort, Nicholas Hamilton, Michael F. Howland, and Paul A. Fleming

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RC1: 'Review: Interesting study about wind farm flows including wake steering but a model verification is missing', Paul van der Laan, 05 Aug 2020
- AC1: 'Response 1', Luis Martinez, 14 Oct 2020
RC2: 'Review on the manuscript wes-2020-86, entitled “The curled wake model: A three-dimensional and extremely fast steady-state wake solver for wind plant flows”, by L.A. Martinez-Tossas et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 06 Aug 2020
- AC2: 'Reviewer 2', Luis Martinez, 14 Oct 2020

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

AR by Luis Martinez on behalf of the Authors (14 Oct 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (16 Oct 2020) by Katherine Dykes

RR by Paul van der Laan (29 Oct 2020)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (29 Oct 2020) by Katherine Dykes

AR by Luis Martinez on behalf of the Authors (10 Nov 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (06 Dec 2020) by Katherine Dykes

AR by Luis Martinez on behalf of the Authors (12 Jan 2021) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (17 Jan 2021) by Katherine Dykes

AR by Luis Martinez on behalf of the Authors (20 Jan 2021) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (07 Mar 2021) by Katherine Dykes

ED: Publish as is (11 Mar 2021) by Jakob Mann (Chief editor)

AR by Luis Martinez on behalf of the Authors (12 Mar 2021) Manuscript

Short summary

In this paper a three-dimensional steady-state solver for flow through a wind farm is developed and validated. The computational cost of the solver is on the order of seconds for large wind farms. The model is validated using high-fidelity simulations and SCADA.