Comparison of large eddy simulations against measurements from the Lillgrund offshore wind farm

Sood, Ishaan; Simon, Elliot; Vitsas, Athanasios; Blockmans, Bart; Larsen, Gunner C.; Meyers, Johan

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-2469-2022

Articles | Volume 7, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-2469-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-2469-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 7, issue 6

Research article

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15 Dec 2022

Research article |

| 15 Dec 2022

Comparison of large eddy simulations against measurements from the Lillgrund offshore wind farm

Ishaan Sood, Elliot Simon, Athanasios Vitsas, Bart Blockmans, Gunner C. Larsen, and Johan Meyers

Data sets

Precursor dataset PDk W. Munters, I. Sood, I., and J. Meyers https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2650100

Precursor dataset PDkhi W. Munters, I. Sood, I., and J. Meyers https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2650102

Precursor dataset CNk2 W. Munters, I. Sood, I., and J. Meyers https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2650096

Precursor dataset CNk4 W. Munters, I. Sood, I., and J. Meyers https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2650098

Comparison of Large Eddy Simulations against measurements from the Lillgrund offshore wind farm - Manuscript data I. Sood https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7358841

Short summary

In this work, we conduct a validation study to compare a numerical solver against measurements obtained from the offshore Lillgrund wind farm. By reusing a previously developed inflow turbulent dataset, the atmospheric conditions at the wind farm were recreated, and the general performance trends of the turbines were captured well. The work increases the reliability of numerical wind farm solvers while highlighting the challenges of accurately representing large wind farms using such solvers.