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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">WESD</journal-id>
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<journal-title>Wind Energy Science Discussions</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">WESD</abbrev-journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/wes-2026-172</article-id>
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<article-title>Brief communication: A fast parabolic RANS numerical model with analytical pressure closure for continuous induction-to-far-wake prediction in wind farm flows</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Blondel</surname>
<given-names>Frédéric</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3252-2781</ext-link>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Bastankhah</surname>
<given-names>Majid</given-names>
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<sup>2</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>IFP Energies nouvelles, 1&amp;4 avenue de Bois Préau, 92852 Rueil-Malmaison, France</addr-line>
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<label>2</label>
<addr-line>Department of Engineering, Durham University, Durham, DH1 3LE, United Kingdom</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>14</day>
<month>10</month>
<year>2026</year>
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<volume>2026</volume>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>7</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Frédéric Blondel</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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<license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this licence, visit <ext-link ext-link-type="uri"  xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</ext-link></license-p>
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<p>Parabolic Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) approaches offer an attractive compromise between the accuracy of RANS and the efficiency of analytical methods. However, due to neglecting pressure gradients, these models often require near-wake corrections. Moreover, they are typically based on over-simplistic turbulence closures. To address these limitations, this brief proof of concept couples a recently developed analytical pressure-gradient formulation (Bastankhah et al., 2026) with a parabolic RANS framework. It also uses the &lt;em&gt;k&lt;/em&gt; &amp;minus; &lt;em&gt;&amp;epsilon;&lt;/em&gt; &amp;minus; &lt;em&gt;f&lt;sub&gt;p&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/em&gt; turbulence closure, well suited to strong near-wake velocity gradients (van der Laan et al., 2015). The model closely reproduces RANS results, while reducing per-core computational costs by more than three orders of magnitude.</p>
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