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https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1049-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1049-2023
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04 Jul 2023
Research article |  | 04 Jul 2023

Investigating the physical mechanisms that modify wind plant blockage in stable boundary layers

Miguel Sanchez Gomez, Julie K. Lundquist, Jeffrey D. Mirocha, and Robert S. Arthur

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The wind slows down as it approaches a wind plant; this phenomenon is called blockage. As a result, the turbines in the wind plant produce less power than initially anticipated. We investigate wind plant blockage for two atmospheric conditions. Blockage is larger for a wind plant compared to a stand-alone turbine. Also, blockage increases with atmospheric stability. Blockage is amplified by the vertical transport of horizontal momentum as the wind approaches the front-row turbines in the array.
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