Articles | Volume 6, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-6-737-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-6-737-2021
Research article
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28 May 2021
Research article |  | 28 May 2021

Design and analysis of a wake model for spatially heterogeneous flow

Alayna Farrell, Jennifer King, Caroline Draxl, Rafael Mudafort, Nicholas Hamilton, Christopher J. Bay, Paul Fleming, and Eric Simley

Model code and software

NREL/floris: v2.3 (Version v2.3) R. M. Mudafort, P. Fleming, C. J. Bay, E. Simley, N. Hamilton, P. Bachant, K. Fleming, J. King, E. Quon, P. J. Stanley, R. Hammond, B. Doekemeijer, D. Bensason, J. Schreiber, K. S. Seim, S. Sortland, T. Martinez, A. Farrell, and Zerweck https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4730981

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Most current wind turbine wake models struggle to accurately simulate spatially variant wind conditions at a low computational cost. In this paper, we present an adaptation of NREL's FLOw Redirection and Induction in Steady State (FLORIS) wake model, which calculates wake losses in a heterogeneous flow field using local weather measurement inputs. Two validation studies are presented where the adapted model consistently outperforms previous versions of FLORIS that simulated uniform flow only.
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