How realistic are the wakes of  scaled wind turbine models?

Wang, Chengyu; Campagnolo, Filippo; Canet, Helena; Barreiro, Daniel J.; Bottasso, Carlo L.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-6-961-2021

Articles | Volume 6, issue 3

Wind Energ. Sci., 6, 961–981, 2021

https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-6-961-2021

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

Wind Energ. Sci., 6, 961–981, 2021

https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-6-961-2021

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

Articles | Volume 6, issue 3

Research article 30 Jun 2021

Research article | 30 Jun 2021

How realistic are the wakes of scaled wind turbine models?

Chengyu Wang et al.

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Final revised paper (published on 30 Jun 2021)
Preprint (discussion started on 10 Nov 2020)

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Status: closed

AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'review', Anonymous Referee #1, 26 Nov 2020
- AC1: 'Reply on RC1', Carlo L. Bottasso, 07 Apr 2021
RC2: 'Review of wes-2020-115 by Wang et al', Anonymous Referee #2, 13 Dec 2020
- AC1: 'Reply on RC1', Carlo L. Bottasso, 07 Apr 2021

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

AR by Carlo L. Bottasso on behalf of the Authors (07 Apr 2021) Author's response Author's tracked changes Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (11 Apr 2021) by Sandrine Aubrun

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (23 Apr 2021)

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (12 May 2021)

ED: Publish as is (12 May 2021) by Sandrine Aubrun

ED: Publish as is (17 May 2021) by Joachim Peinke(Chief Editor)

Short summary

This paper quantifies the fidelity of the wakes generated by a small (1 m diameter) scaled wind turbine model operated in a large boundary layer wind tunnel. A detailed scaling analysis accompanied by large-eddy simulations shows that these wakes are very realistic scaled versions of the ones generated by the parent full-scale wind turbine in the field.