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https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-97-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-97-2024
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18 Jan 2024
Research article |  | 18 Jan 2024

Breakdown of the velocity and turbulence in the wake of a wind turbine – Part 1: Large-eddy-simulation study

Erwan Jézéquel, Frédéric Blondel, and Valéry Masson

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Wind turbine wakes affect the production and lifecycle of downstream turbines. They can be predicted with the dynamic wake meandering (DWM) method. In this paper, the authors break down the velocity and turbulence in the wake of a wind turbine into several terms. They show that it is implicitly assumed in the DWM that some of these terms are neglected. With high-fidelity simulations, it is shown that this can lead to some errors, in particular for the maximum turbulence added by the wake.
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