Experimentally isolating Coriolis effects on wind turbine wakes in a wind farm in a large-scale rotating platform.

As wind farm footprints grow larger, understanding the interactions between mesoscale physical phenomena, such as Earth's rotation, and large-scale farm wakes become increasingly important. Current field research notes spatial and temporal influences on the global farm wakes caused by Coriolis forces. However, using field experiments to study this is notoriously difficult as there is additional influence from wind veer in the atmospheric boundary layer caused by many factors ranging from terrain to the diurnal cycles. Experiments are performed on a wind farm under the influence of Coriolis forces.  A wind farm is installed in the Coriolis platform at Laboratoire des Écoulements Géophysiques et Industriels. The rotating platform is 13m in diameter and can be filled with water up to 1-meter height. The aim is to isolate the Coriolis influence on the wind farm wakes. The wakes will be measured using large-scale particle image velocimetry. The scaled experiments will contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of the efficiencies and modeling of large-scale wind farms