https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/598967
標題: | A simulation study on risks to wind turbine arrays from thunderstorm downbursts in different atmospheric stability conditions | 作者: | Lu N.-Y Manuel L Hawbecker P Basu S. NAN-YOU LU |
關鍵字: | Atmospheric boundary layer;Thunderstorm downburst;Wind farm;Large eddy simulation;Magnetic disk storage;Stability;Structural loads;Thunderstorms;Wind turbines;Atmospheric stability;Extreme loads;Ring vortex;Simulation studies;Thunderstorm downbursts;Time varying;Transition period;Worst-case analysis | 公開日期: | 2021 | 卷: | 14 | 期: | 17 | 來源出版物: | Energies | 摘要: | Thunderstorm downbursts have been reported to cause damage or failure to wind turbine arrays. We extend a large-eddy simulation model used in previous work to generate downburst-related inflow fields with a view toward defining correlated wind fields that all turbines in an array would experience together during a downburst. We are also interested in establishing what role contrasting atmospheric stability conditions can play on the structural demands on the turbines. This interest is because the evening transition period, when thunderstorms are most common, is also when there is generally acknowledged time-varying stability in the atmospheric boundary layer. Our results reveal that the structure of a downburst’s ring vortices and dissipation of its outflow play important roles in the separate inflow fields for turbines located at different parts of the array; these effects vary with stability. Interacting with the ambient winds, the outflow of a downburst is found to have greater impacts in an “average” sense on structural loads for turbines farther from the touchdown center in the stable cases. Worst-case analyses show that the largest extreme loads, although somewhat dependent on the specific structural load variable considered, depend on the location of the turbine and on the prevailing atmospheric stability. The results of our calculations show the highest simulated foreaft tower bending moment to be 85.4 MN-m, which occurs at a unit sited in the array farther from touchdown center of the downburst initiated in a stable boundary layer. ? 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. |
URI: | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85114129247&doi=10.3390%2fen14175407&partnerID=40&md5=8c1b929a4a091785fe821c7c9cfac2d9 https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/598967 |
ISSN: | 19961073 | DOI: | 10.3390/en14175407 |
顯示於: | 機械工程學系 |
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