Wind Tunnel Study on the Tip Speed Ratio’s Impact on a Wind Turbine Wake Development
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2022Metadata
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(based on the turbine diameter and the freestream velocity). For all cases, the mean streamwise velocity deficit at the centerline evolves close to a power law in the far wake, and we check the validity of the Jensen and Bastankhah-Porté-Agel engineering wind turbine wake models and the Townsend-George wake model for free shear flows for this region. Lastly, we present radial profiles of the mean streamwise velocity and test different radial models. Our results show that the lateral profile of the wake is properly fitted by a super-Gaussian curve close to the rotor, while Gaussian-like profiles adapt better in the far wake.