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Thrust coefficient for wind farm simulation

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revenon

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Hello, I'm new to WRF. I'm trying to simulate a wind farm with GE1.5 77 turbines. How do I obtain/calculate the thrust coefficient at each wind speed for the WRF input file?
From the manufacturer's power curve, I tried to calculate the coefficient of power and use it to find the coefficient of thrust. But some of the values for the coefficient of power seem to be incorrect (too high). Any input is appreciated. Thank you!
 
Hi,
Please read the paper below and hope you can find helpful information:

Fitch, Anna C., Joseph B. Olson, Julie K. Lundquist, Jimy Dudhia, Alok K. Gupta, John Michalakes, and Idar Barstad, 2012: Local and mesoscale impacts of wind farms as parameterized in a mesoscale NWP model. Mon. Wea. Rev., 140, 3017–3038. doi:10.1175/MWR-D-11-00352.1

Unfortunately we don't have sufficient knowledge related to wind turbine. Thereby we just stay with the current settings in WRF.
 
Ming Chen said:
Hi,
Please read the paper below and hope you can find helpful information:

Fitch, Anna C., Joseph B. Olson, Julie K. Lundquist, Jimy Dudhia, Alok K. Gupta, John Michalakes, and Idar Barstad, 2012: Local and mesoscale impacts of wind farms as parameterized in a mesoscale NWP model. Mon. Wea. Rev., 140, 3017–3038. doi:10.1175/MWR-D-11-00352.1

Unfortunately we don't have sufficient knowledge related to wind turbine. Thereby we just stay with the current settings in WRF.
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Hi Ming Chen, Thank you for the link.
 
Hello,

I'm also trying to simulate a wind farm, I have the curves for power and thrust coefficient, but I don't know what is the "standing thrust coefficient".
Does anyone know what that means?
 
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