Because the purpose of wind machines is to take energy out of the wind, it is counterintuitive to find the wind’s average velocity increases inside the wind farm. This is not what I learned in Aerodynamics I. Some clarification, please.
John Toomay Carlsbad, Calif.
Remember boundary layers. The wind speed at windmill level is higher than it is at ground level.
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