Table 2.
Numerical set-up and model description of the three validation steps and the simulation using the model developed by Smith (2010). Note that the periodic boundary conditions are circumvented in the first validation step (VAL1), and that Smith’s model considers hydrostatic gravity waves and excludes the dependence of the wind-farm drag on the inflow velocity.
| Domain size Lx [km] |
Grid resolution Δx [m] |
Gravity-wave coupling |
Wind-farm model |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VAL1 | 38.4/28.8 | 16.7/12.5 | no | constant ct |
| VAL2 | 1000 | 300 | yes | constant ct |
| VAL3 | 1000 | 300 | yes | wake model |
| Smith | 1000 | 300 | yes | constant drag |