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Joshua Brinkerhoff

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The interaction of large wind farm clusters with the thermally stratified atmosphere has emerged as an important physical process that impacts the productivity of wind farms. Under stable conditions, this interaction triggers atmospheric gravity waves (AGWs) in the free atmospher ...
The growing number and growing size of wind energy projects coupled with the rapid growth in high-performance computing technology are driving researchers toward conducting large-scale simulations of the flow field surrounding entire wind farms. This requires highly parallel-effi ...
As offshore wind farms grow in size, the blockage effect associated with the atmospheric gravity waves they trigger is expected to become more important. To model this, recent research has produced an Atmospheric Perturbation Model (APM), which simulates the mesoscale flow in the ...

The multi-scale coupled model

A new framework capturing wind farm–atmosphere interaction and global blockage effects

The growth in the number and size of wind energy projects in the last decade has revealed structural limitations in the current approach adopted by the wind industry to assess potential wind farm sites. These limitations are the result of neglecting the mutual interaction of larg ...
In the context of large off-shore wind farms, power production is influenced greatly by the turbine array's interaction with the atmospheric boundary layer. One of the most influencing manifestations of such complex interaction is the increased level of shear stress observed with ...