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In large wind farms, wakes of individual wind turbines combine into an aggregated wind-farm wake that interacts with the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL). This three-dimensional turbulent flow is influenced by many external factors such as, e.g., the earth’s rotation and thermal stratification. Modelling the complex wind-farm–ABL interaction therefore requires a detailed spatial and temporal resolution of atmospheric turbulence.
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The authors acknowledge support from the European Research Council (FP7–Ideas, grant no. 306471). The computational resources and services used in this work were provided by the VSC (Flemish Supercomputer Center), funded by the Hercules Foundation and the Flemish Government – department EWI.
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Allaerts, D., Meyers, J. (2018). Simulation of Large Wind Farms in the Conventionally Neutral Atmospheric Boundary Layer Using LES. In: Grigoriadis, D., Geurts, B., Kuerten, H., Fröhlich, J., Armenio, V. (eds) Direct and Large-Eddy Simulation X. ERCOFTAC Series, vol 24. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63212-4_60
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