Articles | Volume 9, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-2301-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-2301-2024
Research article
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18 Dec 2024
Research article |  | 18 Dec 2024

The actuator farm model for large eddy simulation (LES) of wind-farm-induced atmospheric gravity waves and farm–farm interaction

Sebastiano Stipa, Arjun Ajay, and Joshua Brinkerhoff

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Toolbox fOr Stratified Convective Atmospheres (TOSCA) S. Stipa et al. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/Q4VAF

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This study presents the actuator farm model, a new method for modeling wind turbines within large wind farms. The model greatly reduces computational cost when compared to traditional actuator wind turbine models and is beneficial for studying flow around large wind farms as well as the interaction between multiple wind farms. Results obtained from numerical simulations show excellent agreement with past wind turbine models, demonstrating its utility for future large-scale wind farm simulations.
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