A11G:
Renewable Energy: Wind Energy Wake Effects Posters

Monday, 15 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Jessica Lundin, Vaisala Inc., Louisville, CO, United States and Elizabeth C Weatherhead, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Conveners:  Jessica Lundin, 3TIER, Vaisala, Seattle, WA, United States
Co-conveners:  James R McCaa1,2, Elizabeth C Weatherhead3,4 and Andrew Clifton3, (1)3TIER, Vaisala, Seattle, WA, United States(2)University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States(3)National Renewable Energy Lab, Golden, CO, United States(4)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Elizabeth C Weatherhead, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Large Eddy Simulation of Wind Turbine Wake Dynamics in the Stable Boundary Layer Using the Weather Research and Forecasting Model
Matthew Aitken, Environmental Protection Agency Research Triangle Park, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States, Branko Kosovic, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Jeffrey D Mirocha, Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab, Livermore, CA, United States and Julie K Lundquist, U. of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Impacts of Wind Farms on Cumulus Cloud Development in the Central Great Plains
Laren Celia Mahoney1, Timothy J. Wagner1, Tristan S L'Ecuyer2 and Mark Kulie3, (1)Creighton University, Omaha, NE, United States, (2)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (3)Univ Wisconsin - SSEC, Madison, WI, United States
 
Wind Turbine Wake Variability in a Large Wind Farm, Observed by Scanning Lidar
Julie K Lundquist1,2, Gao Xiaoxia3, Matthew Aitken4, Paul T. Quelet1, Jiwan Rana1, Michael E Rhodes1, Clara M. St. Martin1, Ken Tay5, Rochelle Worsnop1, Samantha Irvin6, Daniel A Rajewski6 and Eugene S Takle6, (1)U. of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)National Renewable Energy Laboratory Golden, Golden, CO, United States, (3)Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, (4)Environmental Protection Agency Research Triangle Park, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States, (5)Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore, (6)Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States
 
Wind Turbine Wake Experiment - Wieringermeer (WINTWEX-W)
Valerie-Marie Kumer1, Joachim Reuder1, Benny Svardal2 and Peter Eecen3, (1)University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, (2)Christian Michelsen Research Institute, Bergen, Norway, (3)Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands, Petten, Netherlands
 
Quantifying error of remote sensing observations of wind turbine wakes using computational fluid dynamics
Julie K Lundquist1, Matt Churchfield2, Sang Lee2 and Andrew Clifton3, (1)U. of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)National Renewable Energy Laboratory Golden, Golden, CO, United States, (3)National Renewable Energy Lab, Golden, CO, United States
 
Atmospheric stability effects on wind farm performance using large-eddy simulation
Cristina L Archer, Niranjan Ghaisas and Shengbai Xie, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States
 
Examples of the Influence of Turbine Wakes on Downwind Power Output, Surface Wind Speed, Turbulence and Flow Convergence in Large Wind Farms
Eugene S Takle1, Daniel A Rajewski1, Julie K Lundquist2 and Russell K Doorenbos1, (1)Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States, (2)U. of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
 
First comparison of LES of an offshore wind turbine wake with dual-Doppler lidar measurement in the offshore wind farm “alpha ventus”
Lukas Vollmer, Davide Trabucchi, Björn Witha, Marijn van Dooren, Juan José Trujillo, Jörge Schneemann and Martin Kühn, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
 
Regional Offshore Wind Farm Optimization Using Wind Climatology and the Weather Research and Forecasting Model
Joseph F Brodie, Dana E Veron, Cristina L Archer and Fabrice Veron, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States
 
Long range lidar data processing for validating LES of wind turbine wakes
Davide Trabucchi, Marijn van Dooren, Lukas Vollmer, Jörge Schneemann, Juan José Trujillo, Björn Witha and Martin Kühn, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
 
Characterization of the Boundary Layer Wind and Turbulence in the Gulf of Mexico
Yelena L Pichugina1, Robert M Banta2, Aditya Choukulkar1, Alan Brewer2, Robert Michael Hardesty1, Brandi McCarty1 and Richard Marchbanks1, (1)Colorado University/NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Large-Eddy Simulations of Wind Turbine Wakes Subject to Different Atmospheric Stabilities
Matt Churchfield1, Julie K Lundquist2, Sang Lee1 and Andrew Clifton3, (1)National Renewable Energy Laboratory Golden, Golden, CO, United States, (2)U. of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)National Renewable Energy Lab, Golden, CO, United States
 
Wind turbine parameterizations implemented in WRF mesoscale-LES nested simulations
Nikola Marjanovic, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Jeffrey D Mirocha, Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab, Livermore, CA, United States and Fotini K Chow, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
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