Figure 5.

Example of a farm in the Cook Strait example channel optimized to meet the total demand (4.1) given by the grey curve with ${\lambda }_{\mathrm{F}}^{max}={\lambda }_{\mathrm{F}}^{\mathrm{GC}05}$. The peak in the Gaussian demand curve is at 5.5 h. (a) Power and demand relative to ${\overline{P}}_{\mathrm{GC}05}$. An inertial storage farm meets 68% of total demand and 90% of peak demand, whereas a MIOF meets 63% of total demand but only 40% of peak demand. (b) Optimized variable farm drag coefficient relative to λ^GC05_F. (c) Velocity along the channel relative to velocity when there is no farm. (d) Total force on the farms relative to the maximum force on a GC05 farm.