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Experimental study of the horizontally averaged flow structure in a model wind-turbine array boundary layer
When wind turbines are deployed in large arrays, their ability to extract kinetic energy from the flow decreases due to complex interactions among them, the terrain topography and the atmospheric boundary layer. In order to improve the understanding of the vertical transport of momentum and kinetic energy across a boundary layer flow with wind turbines, a wind-tunnel experiment is performed. The boundary layer flow includes a 3×3 array of model wind turbines. Particle-image-velocity measurements in a volume surrounding a target wind turbine are used to compute mean velocity and turbulence properties averaged on horizontal planes. Results are compared with simple momentum theory and with expressions for effective roughness length scales used to parametrize wind-turbine arrays in large-scale computer models. The impact of vertical transport of kinetic energy due to turbulence and mean flow correlations is quantified. It is found that the fluxes of kinetic energy associated with the Reynolds shear stresses are of the same order of magnitude as the power extracted by the wind turbines, highlighting the importance of vertical transport in the boundary layer.
Experimental study of the horizontally averaged flow structure in a model wind-turbine array boundary layer
When wind turbines are deployed in large arrays, their ability to extract kinetic energy from the flow decreases due to complex interactions among them, the terrain topography and the atmospheric boundary layer. In order to improve the understanding of the vertical transport of momentum and kinetic energy across a boundary layer flow with wind turbines, a wind-tunnel experiment is performed. The boundary layer flow includes a 3×3 array of model wind turbines. Particle-image-velocity measurements in a volume surrounding a target wind turbine are used to compute mean velocity and turbulence properties averaged on horizontal planes. Results are compared with simple momentum theory and with expressions for effective roughness length scales used to parametrize wind-turbine arrays in large-scale computer models. The impact of vertical transport of kinetic energy due to turbulence and mean flow correlations is quantified. It is found that the fluxes of kinetic energy associated with the Reynolds shear stresses are of the same order of magnitude as the power extracted by the wind turbines, highlighting the importance of vertical transport in the boundary layer.
Experimental study of the horizontally averaged flow structure in a model wind-turbine array boundary layer
Cal, Rau´l Bayoa´n (author) / Lebro´n, Jose´ (author) / Castillo, Luciano (author) / Kang, Hyung Suk (author) / Meneveau, Charles (author)
Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy ; 2 ; 013106-
2010-01-01
25 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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