Articles | Volume 56
https://doi.org/10.5194/adgeo-56-129-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/adgeo-56-129-2021
22 Nov 2021
 | 22 Nov 2021

Recovery processes in coastal wind farms under sea-breeze conditions

Tanvi Gupta and Somnath Baidya Roy

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In this paper we study how the momentum extracted by wind turbines get replenished so that the wind farm can continue to function. We use a numerical model to simulate the dynamics of a hypothetical coastal wind farm in the Arabian Sea under sea breeze conditions. Results show that vertical turbulent eddies can replenish more than half of the lost momentum, but horizontal advection also plays a role near the wind farm edges especially in sparsely packed wind farms.