Wind-turbine and wind-farm flows: a review

F Porté-Agel, M Bastankhah, S Shamsoddin - Boundary-layer meteorology, 2020 - Springer
Wind energy, together with other renewable energy sources, are expected to grow
substantially in the coming decades and play a key role in mitigating climate change and …

Convection‐permitting modeling with regional climate models: Latest developments and next steps

P Lucas‐Picher, D Argüeso, E Brisson… - Wiley …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Approximately 10 years ago, convection‐permitting regional climate models (CPRCMs)
emerged as a promising computationally affordable tool to produce fine resolution (1–4 km) …

[PDF][PDF] A description of the advanced research WRF version 4

WC Skamarock, JB Klemp… - … tech. note ncar …, 2019 - pfigshare-u-files.s3.amazonaws.com
The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model is an atmospheric modeling system
designed for both research and numerical weather prediction. WRF is an open-source …

Grand challenges in the science of wind energy

P Veers, K Dykes, E Lantz, S Barth, CL Bottasso… - Science, 2019 - science.org
BACKGROUND A growing global population and an increasing demand for energy services
are expected to result in substantially greater deployment of clean energy sources. Wind …

The future of forecasting for renewable energy

C Sweeney, RJ Bessa, J Browell… - … Reviews: Energy and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Forecasting for wind and solar renewable energy is becoming more important as the amount
of energy generated from these sources increases. Forecast skill is improving, but so too is …

Flow structure and turbulence in wind farms

RJAM Stevens, C Meneveau - Annual review of fluid mechanics, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Similar to other renewable energy sources, wind energy is characterized by a low power
density. Hence, for wind energy to make considerable contributions to the world's overall …

Costs and consequences of wind turbine wake effects arising from uncoordinated wind energy development

JK Lundquist, KK DuVivier, D Kaffine, JM Tomaszewski - Nature Energy, 2019 - nature.com
Optimal wind farm locations require a strong and reliable wind resource and access to
transmission lines. As onshore and offshore wind energy grows, preferred locations become …

Accelerating deployment of offshore wind energy alter wind climate and reduce future power generation potentials

N Akhtar, B Geyer, B Rockel, PS Sommer, C Schrum - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The European Union has set ambitious CO2 reduction targets, stimulating
renewable energy production and accelerating deployment of offshore wind energy in …

Southward shift of the global wind energy resource under high carbon dioxide emissions

KB Karnauskas, JK Lundquist, L Zhang - Nature Geoscience, 2018 - nature.com
The use of wind energy resource is an integral part of many nations' strategies towards
realizing the carbon emissions reduction targets set forth in the Paris Agreement, and global …

First in situ evidence of wakes in the far field behind offshore wind farms

A Platis, SK Siedersleben, J Bange, A Lampert… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
More than 12 GW of offshore wind turbines are currently in operation in European waters. To
optimise the use of the marine areas, wind farms are typically clustered in units of several …