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https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1049-2023
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https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1049-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Investigating the physical mechanisms that modify wind plant blockage in stable boundary layers
Miguel Sanchez Gomez
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0311, United States
Julie K. Lundquist
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0311, United States
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado 80401, United States
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
Jeffrey D. Mirocha
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, United States
Robert S. Arthur
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, United States
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Short summary
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.
The wind slows down as it approaches a wind plant; this phenomenon is called blockage. As a...
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