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https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1305-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1305-2024
Research article
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10 Jun 2024
Research article |  | 10 Jun 2024

An actuator sector model for wind power applications: a parametric study

Mohammad Mehdi Mohammadi, Hugo Olivares-Espinosa, Gonzalo Pablo Navarro Diaz, and Stefan Ivanell

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This paper has put forward a set of recommendations regarding the actuator sector model implementation details to improve the capability of the model to reproduce similar results compared to those obtained by an actuator line model, which is one of the most common ways used for numerical simulations of wind farms, while providing significant computational savings. This includes among others the velocity sampling method and a correction of the sampled velocities to calculate the blade forces.
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