Investigations of Farm-to-Farm Interactions and Blockage Effects from AWAKEN Using Large-Scale Numerical Simulations

Lawrence Cheung; Alan Hsieh; Myra Blaylock; Thomas Herges; Nathaniel deVelder; Kenneth Brown; Philip Sakievich; Daniel Houck; David Maniaci; Colleen Kaul; Raj Rai; Nicholas Hamilton; Alex Rybchuk; Ryan Scott; Regis Thedin; Michael Brazell; Matthew Churchfield; Michael Sprague

doi:10.1088/1742-6596/2505/1/012023

Investigations of Farm-to-Farm Interactions and Blockage Effects from AWAKEN Using Large-Scale Numerical Simulations

Lawrence Cheung, Alan Hsieh, Myra Blaylock, Thomas Herges, Nathaniel deVelder, Kenneth Brown, Philip Sakievich, Daniel Houck, David Maniaci, Colleen Kaul, Raj Rai, Nicholas Hamilton, Alex Rybchuk, Ryan Scott, Regis Thedin, Michael Brazell, Matthew Churchfield, Michael Sprague

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Abstract

A large-scale numerical computation of five wind farms was performed as a part of the American WAKE experimeNt (AWAKEN). This high-fidelity computation used the ExaWind/AMR-Wind LES solver to simulate a 100 km × 100 km domain containing 541 turbines under unstable atmospheric conditions matching previous measurements. The turbines were represented by Joukowski and OpenFAST coupled actuator disk models. Results of this qualitative comparison illustrate the interactions of wind farms with large-scale ABL structures in the flow, as well as the extent of downstream wake penetration in the flow and blockage effects around wind farms.

Original language	American English
Article number	Article No. 012023
Number of pages	13
Journal	Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Volume	2505
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2505/1/012023 https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2505/1/012023
State	Published - 2023
Event	8th Wake Conference 2023 - Visby, Sweden Duration: 20 Jun 2023 → 22 Jun 2023

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NREL/JA-5000-85581

Keywords

computational fluid dynamics
ExaWind
wind plant

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Cheung, L., Hsieh, A., Blaylock, M., Herges, T., deVelder, N., Brown, K., Sakievich, P., Houck, D., Maniaci, D., Kaul, C., Rai, R., Hamilton, N., Rybchuk, A., Scott, R., Thedin, R., Brazell, M., Churchfield, M., & Sprague, M. (2023). Investigations of Farm-to-Farm Interactions and Blockage Effects from AWAKEN Using Large-Scale Numerical Simulations. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2505(1), Article Article No. 012023. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2505/1/012023, https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2505/1/012023

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Investigations of Farm-to-Farm Interactions and Blockage Effects from AWAKEN Using Large-Scale Numerical Simulations

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