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On the Impact of Wind Farms on a Convective Atmospheric Boundary Layer

Lu, Hao  
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Porte-Agel, Fernando  
2015
Boundary-Layer Meteorology

With the rapid growth in the number of wind turbines installed worldwide, a demand exists for a clear understanding of how wind farms modify land-atmosphere exchanges. Here, we conduct three-dimensional large-eddy simulations to investigate the impact of wind farms on a convective atmospheric boundary layer. Surface temperature and heat flux are determined using a surface thermal energy balance approach, coupled with the solution of a three-dimensional heat equation in the soil. We study several cases of aligned and staggered wind farms with different streamwise and spanwise spacings. The farms consist of Siemens SWT-2.3-93 wind turbines. Results reveal that, in the presence of wind turbines, the stability of the atmospheric boundary layer is modified, the boundary-layer height is increased, and the magnitude of the surface heat flux is slightly reduced. Results also show an increase in land-surface temperature, a slight reduction in the vertically-integrated temperature, and a heterogeneous spatial distribution of the surface heat flux.

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research article
DOI
10.1007/s10546-015-0049-1
Web of Science ID

WOS:000360668900005

Author(s)
Lu, Hao  
Porte-Agel, Fernando  
Date Issued

2015

Publisher

Springer

Published in
Boundary-Layer Meteorology
Volume

157

Issue

1

Start page

81

End page

96

Subjects

Convective atmospheric boundary layer

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Large-eddy simulation

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Wind farm

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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WIRE  
Available on Infoscience
September 28, 2015
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/118671
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