Articles | Volume 9, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-253-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-253-2024
Research article
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29 Jan 2024
Research article |  | 29 Jan 2024

The wind farm pressure field

Ronald B. Smith

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Recent papers have investigated the impact of turbine drag on local wind patterns, but these studies have not given a full explanation of the induced pressure field. The pressure field blocks and deflects the wind and in other ways modifies farm efficiency. Current gravity wave models are complex and provide no estimation tools. We dig deeper into the cause of the pressure field and provide approximate closed-form expressions for pressure field effects.
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