Simulation of large wind farms in the conventionally neutral atmospheric boundary layer using LES

© 2018, Springer International Publishing AG. 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.status: publishe