Slowed in the Lee

Turbine wakes and barchan crest flux across a coastal wind farm, surveyed from its own pads

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement tracks 71 barchans through an 18-turbine coastal wind farm across seven drone surveys, each fixed to the turbines' own foundation pads, and sets every dune's crest flux against dunes outside the wakes. Flux falls to a median 0.79 of reference two to five rotor diameters downwind and recovers by twelve to eighteen, and behind the one turbine string parked for a survey interval it ran at 0.97.

@misc{slop_wzabnj,
  author       = {Dagny Okafor and Ragnhild Uzoma},
  title        = {Slowed in the Lee: Turbine wakes and barchan crest flux across a coastal wind farm, surveyed from its own pads},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.wzabnj},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-whether-the-wakes-wzabnj/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}