Modelling the effect of wind farming on mesoscale flow - Part 1: Flow model

Abstract

This paper presents a new method for determining the interaction between a wind farm and the prevailing wind for wind energy siting studies. It is shown that neutral planetary boundary layer flow with wind farming essentially is steady and two-dimensional; and that the convective forces, the Coriolis forces and the vertical and spanwise gradients of the turbulent momentum fluxes all have the same order of magnitude. In addition it is shown that a numerical representation in the form of backward differences allows for an implicit solution of the two horizontal velocity components in vertical direction, iterating on the turbulent viscosity, in combination with a marching solution in the horizontal directions. © 2007 IOP Publishing Ltd.