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The top-down model of wind farm boundary layers and its applications

Charles Meneveau Department of Mechanical Engineering and Center for Environmental and Applied Fluid Mechanics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21218, USA
Article: N7 | Received 19 Oct 2011, Accepted 25 Jan 2012, Published online: 29 Feb 2012

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Charles Meneveau. (2019) Big wind power: seven questions for turbulence research. Journal of Turbulence 20:1, pages 2-20.
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Luciano Castillo, John Dabiri, Jonathan Naughton & Charles Meneveau. (2013) Foreword: a special issue on turbulence and wind energy. Journal of Turbulence 14:4, pages 53-54.
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CoreyD. Markfort, Wei Zhang & Fernando Porté-Agel. (2012) Turbulent flow and scalar transport through and over aligned and staggered wind farms. Journal of Turbulence 13.
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Richard J.A.M. Stevens. (2023) Understanding wind farm power densities. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 958.
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Nikolaos Bempedelis, Sylvain Laizet & Georgios Deskos. (2023) Turbulent entrainment in finite-length wind farms. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 955.
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John Turner V & Martin Wosnik. (2022) Velocity data in a fully developed experimental wind turbine array boundary layer. Wind Energy 25:9, pages 1495-1513.
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G. V. Iungo, R. Maulik, S. A. Renganathan & S. Letizia. (2022) Machine-learning identification of the variability of mean velocity and turbulence intensity for wakes generated by onshore wind turbines: Cluster analysis of wind LiDAR measurements. Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy 14:2.
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Antonio Segalini & Marco Chericoni. (2021) Boundary-layer evolution over long wind farms. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 925.
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C. Feist, F. Sotiropoulos & M. Guala. (2021) A quasi-coupled wind wave experimental framework for testing offshore wind turbine floating systems. Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters 11:5, pages 100294.
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Huan Zhang, Mingwei Ge, Yongqian Liu & Xiang I.A. Yang. (2021) A new coupled model for the equivalent roughness heights of wind farms. Renewable Energy 171, pages 34-46.
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Genevieve M. Starke, Paul Stanfel, Charles Meneveau, Dennice F. Gayme & Jennifer King. (2021) Network based estimation of wind farm power and velocity data under changing wind direction. Network based estimation of wind farm power and velocity data under changing wind direction.
Nathaniel J. Wei, Ian D. Brownstein, Jennifer L. Cardona, Michael F. Howland & John O. Dabiri. (2021) Near-wake structure of full-scale vertical-axis wind turbines. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 914.
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Genevieve M. Starke, Charles Meneveau, Jennifer R. King & Dennice F. Gayme. (2021) The area localized coupled model for analytical mean flow prediction in arbitrary wind farm geometries. Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy 13:3.
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Majid Bastankhah, Bridget L. Welch, Luis A. Martínez-Tossas, Jennifer King & Paul Fleming. (2021) Analytical solution for the cumulative wake of wind turbines in wind farms. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 911.
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Srinidhi N. Gadde & Richard J. A. M. Stevens. (2021) Interaction between low-level jets and wind farms in a stable atmospheric boundary layer. Physical Review Fluids 6:1.
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Enrico G.A. Antonini & Ken Caldeira. (2021) Atmospheric pressure gradients and Coriolis forces provide geophysical limits to power density of large wind farms. Applied Energy 281, pages 116048.
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Richard J.A.M. Stevens & Charles Meneveau. (2020) Large eddy simulation study of extended wind farms with large inter turbine spacing. Journal of Physics: Conference Series 1618:6, pages 062011.
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G. Cortina, V. Sharma, R. Torres & M. Calaf. (2020) Mean kinetic energy distribution in finite-size wind farms: A function of turbines’ arrangement. Renewable Energy 148, pages 585-599.
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M. F. Howland, A. S. Ghate & S. K. Lele. (2019) Influence of the geostrophic wind direction on the atmospheric boundary layer flow. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 883.
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Aliza Abraham & Jiarong Hong. (2020) Dynamic wake modulation induced by utility-scale wind turbine operation. Applied Energy 257, pages 114003.
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Fernando Porté-Agel, Majid Bastankhah & Sina Shamsoddin. (2019) Wind-Turbine and Wind-Farm Flows: A Review. Boundary-Layer Meteorology 174:1, pages 1-59.
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Antonios F. Antoniadis. (2019) Prediction of the impact of support structures on the aerodynamic performance of large wind farms. Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy 11:6, pages 063306.
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Carl R. Shapiro, Genevieve M. Starke, Charles Meneveau & Dennice F. Gayme. (2019) A Wake Modeling Paradigm for Wind Farm Design and Control. Energies 12:15, pages 2956.
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Juliaan Bossuyt, Charles Meneveau & Johan Meyers. (2018) Effect of layout on asymptotic boundary layer regime in deep wind farms. Physical Review Fluids 3:12.
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Mirko Musa, Craig Hill, Fotis Sotiropoulos & Michele Guala. (2018) Performance and resilience of hydrokinetic turbine arrays under large migrating fluvial bedforms. Nature Energy 3:10, pages 839-846.
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Lun Ma & Takafumi Nishino. (2018) Preliminary estimate of the impact of support structures on the aerodynamic performance of very large wind farms. Journal of Physics: Conference Series 1037, pages 072036.
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Nicolai Gayle Nygaard & Alexander Christian Newcombe. (2018) Wake behind an offshore wind farm observed with dual-Doppler radars. Journal of Physics: Conference Series 1037, pages 072008.
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Corey D. Markfort, Wei Zhang & Fernando Porté-Agel. (2017) Analytical Model for Mean Flow and Fluxes of Momentum and Energy in Very Large Wind Farms. Boundary-Layer Meteorology 166:1, pages 31-49.
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Shengbai Xie & Cristina L. Archer. (2017) A Numerical Study of Wind-Turbine Wakes for Three Atmospheric Stability Conditions. Boundary-Layer Meteorology 165:1, pages 87-112.
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Alejandro Zapata, Takafumi Nishino & Pierre-Luc Delafin. (2017) Theoretically optimal turbine resistance in very large wind farms. Journal of Physics: Conference Series 854, pages 012051.
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PL Delafin & T Nishino. (2017) Momentum balance in a fully developed boundary layer over a staggered array of NREL 5MW rotors. Journal of Physics: Conference Series 854, pages 012009.
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Nicolas Tobin, Ali M. Hamed & Leonardo P. Chamorro. (2017) Fractional Flow Speed-Up from Porous Windbreaks for Enhanced Wind-Turbine Power. Boundary-Layer Meteorology 163:2, pages 253-271.
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X. I. A. Yang & C. Meneveau. (2017) Modelling turbulent boundary layer flow over fractal-like multiscale terrain using large-eddy simulations and analytical tools. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 375:2091, pages 20160098.
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Dries Allaerts & Johan Meyers. (2017) Boundary-layer development and gravity waves in conventionally neutral wind farms. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 814, pages 95-130.
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V. Sharma, M. B. Parlange & M. Calaf. (2016) Perturbations to the Spatial and Temporal Characteristics of the Diurnally-Varying Atmospheric Boundary Layer Due to an Extensive Wind Farm. Boundary-Layer Meteorology 162:2, pages 255-282.
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Shengbai Xie, Cristina L. Archer, Niranjan Ghaisas & Charles Meneveau. (2017) Benefits of collocating vertical-axis and horizontal-axis wind turbines in large wind farms. Wind Energy 20:1, pages 45-62.
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Lee M. Miller & Axel Kleidon. (2016) Wind speed reductions by large-scale wind turbine deployments lower turbine efficiencies and set low generation limits. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113:48, pages 13570-13575.
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Richard J. A. M. Stevens, Dennice F. Gayme & Charles Meneveau. (2016) Generalized coupled wake boundary layer model: applications and comparisons with field and LES data for two wind farms. Wind Energy 19:11, pages 2023-2040.
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Xiang I. A. Yang. (2016) On the Mean Flow Behaviour in the Presence of Regional-Scale Surface Roughness Heterogeneity. Boundary-Layer Meteorology 161:1, pages 127-143.
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Brian J. Vanderwende, Branko Kosović, Julie K. Lundquist & Jeffrey D. Mirocha. (2016) Simulating effects of a wind‐turbine array using LES and RANS. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 8:3, pages 1376-1390.
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Xiaolei Yang & Fotis Sotiropoulos. (2016) Analytical model for predicting the performance of arbitrary size and layout wind farms. Wind Energy 19:7, pages 1239-1248.
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Richard J. A. M. Stevens. (2016) Dependence of optimal wind turbine spacing on wind farm length. Wind Energy 19:4, pages 651-663.
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K. B. Howard, L. P. Chamorro & M. Guala. (2015) A Comparative Analysis on the Response of a Wind-Turbine Model to Atmospheric and Terrain Effects. Boundary-Layer Meteorology 158:2, pages 229-255.
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Richard J.A.M. Stevens, Dennice F. Gayme & Charles Meneveau. (2016) Effects of turbine spacing on the power output of extended wind-farms. Wind Energy 19:2, pages 359-370.
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Richard J A M Stevens, Dennice Gayme & Charles Meneveau. (2015) Using the coupled wake boundary layer model to evaluate the effect of turbulence intensity on wind farm performance. Journal of Physics: Conference Series 625, pages 012004.
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Niranjan S. Ghaisas & Cristina L. Archer. (2015) Geometry-Based Models for Studying the Effects of Wind Farm Layout. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 33:3, pages 481-501.
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Arvind Singh, Kevin B. Howard & Michele Guala. (2014) On the homogenization of turbulent flow structures in the wake of a model wind turbine. Physics of Fluids 26:2.
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Mahdi Abkar & Fernando Porté-Agel. (2013) The Effect of Free-Atmosphere Stratification on Boundary-Layer Flow and Power Output from Very Large Wind Farms. Energies 6:5, pages 2338-2361.
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Wei Zhang, Corey D Markfort & Fernando Porté-Agel. (2013) Experimental study of the impact of large-scale wind farms on land–atmosphere exchanges. Environmental Research Letters 8:1, pages 015002.
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