期刊
WIND ENERGY
卷 15, 期 5, 页码 733-742出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/we.501
关键词
atmospheric boundary layer; Reynolds number; turbulence; wind tunnel experiment; wind turbine wake
资金
- Department of Energy DOE [DE-EE0002980]
- Xcel Energy through the Renewable Development Fund [RD3-42]
- Initiative for Renewable Energy and the Environment (IREE) [RM-0002-10, M4-2008]
A wind tunnel experiment has been performed to quantify the Reynolds number dependence of turbulence statistics in the wake of a model wind turbine. A wind turbine was placed in a boundary layer flow developed over a smooth surface under thermally neutral conditions. Experiments considered Reynolds numbers on the basis of the turbine rotor diameter and the velocity at hub height, ranging from Re?=?1.66?x?104 to 1.73?x?105. Results suggest that main flow statistics (mean velocity, turbulence intensity, kinematic shear stress and velocity skewness) become independent of Reynolds number starting from Re similar to 9.3?x?104. In general, stronger Reynolds number dependence was observed in the near wake region where the flow is strongly affected by the aerodynamics of the wind turbine blades. In contrast, in the far wake region, where the boundary layer flow starts to modulate the dynamics of the wake, main statistics showed weak Reynolds dependence. These results will allow us to extrapolate wind tunnel and computational fluid dynamic simulations, which often are conducted at lower Reynolds numbers, to full-scale conditions. In particular, these findings motivates us to improve existing parameterizations for wind turbine wakes (e.g. velocity deficit, wake expansion, turbulence intensity) under neutral conditions and the predictive capabilities of atmospheric large eddy simulation models. Copyright (c) 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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