Assessing Wind Resource Potential in the Built Environment

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan W. Stewart ◽  
Sue Ellen Haupt ◽  
Julia A. Cole
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Power Density ◽  
Wind Turbines ◽  
Field Measurements ◽  
Detached Eddy Simulation ◽  
Existing Structures ◽  
Eddy Simulation ◽  
Power Maps ◽  
Wind Resource ◽  
Over The Top

This study addresses the issue of siting wind turbines on existing structures in the built environment for optimal performance. Annually averaged wind power maps were produced over the surface of two different building types using a Detached Eddy Simulation (DES) model in order to assess the feasibility of building integrated wind under various wind resource conditions. The modeling approach was first applied to a cubical geometry for which validation of the CFD results was possible with existing field measurements. A pitched roof building was also modeled to study the power density over top of typical residential shaped structures. The average annual power density for twenty-seven locations over the top of the modeled structures was analyzed under varying wind direction distributions (wind roses). The overall results of this study have the potential to inform the wind energy and built environment communities on best practices for siting wind turbines on or near buildings.

scholarly journals Wind turbines in atmospheric flow – FSI simulations with hybrid LES-IDDES turbulence modelling

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Grinderslev ◽  
Niels Nørmark Sørensen ◽  
Sergio González Horcas ◽  
Niels Troldborg ◽  
Frederik Zahle
Keyword(s):  
Turbulence Model ◽  
Wind Turbines ◽  
Separated Flow ◽  
Simulation Method ◽  
Turbine Rotor ◽  
Detached Eddy Simulation ◽  
Atmospheric Flow ◽  
Eddy Simulation ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Impact

Abstract. In order to design future large wind turbines, knowledge is needed about the impact of aero-elasticity on the rotor loads and performance, and about the physics of the atmospheric flow surrounding the turbines. The objective of the present work is to study both effects by means of high fidelity rotor-resolved numerical simulations. In particular, unsteady computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations of a 2.3 MW wind turbine rotor are conducted, this rotor being the largest design with relevant experimental data available to the authors. Turbulence is modeled with two different approaches. On one hand, the well established improved delayed detached eddy simulation (IDDES) model is employed. An additional set of simulations relies on a novel hybrid turbulence model, developed within the framework of the present work. It consists on the blending of a large eddy simulation (LES) model for atmospheric flow by Deardorff with an IDDES model for the separated flow near the rotor geometry. In the same way, the assessment of the influence of the blade flexibility is performed by comparing two different sets of computations. A first group accounts for a structural multi body dynamic (MBD) model of the blades. The MBD solver was coupled to the CFD solver during run time with a staggered fluid structure interaction (FSI) scheme. The second set of simulations uses the original rotor geometry, without accounting for any structural deflection. The results of the present work show no significant difference between the IDDES and the hybrid turbulence model. However, it is expected that future simulations of more complex stratification and longer domains will benefit from the developed hybrid model. In a similar manner, and due to the fact that the considered rotor was relatively stiff, the loading variation introduced by the blade flexibility was found to be negligible when compared to the influence of inflow turbulence. The simulation method validated here is considered highly relevant for future turbine designs, where the impact of blade elasticity will be significant and the detailed structure of the atmospheric inflow will be important.

scholarly journals Design Options to Improve the Dynamic Behavior and the Control of Small H-Darrieus VAWTs

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (19) ◽  
pp. 9222
Author(s):  
Lorenzo Battisti
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Wind Turbines ◽  
Rational Design ◽  
Design Procedure ◽  
Design Parameters ◽  
Site Characteristics ◽  
Acceleration And Deceleration ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Wind Resource

H-VAWTs or straight blades VAWTs are the most common turbine architecture employed for small VAWTs. The manufacture of straight, constant chord blades, coupled with the transport advantages, make this choice technologically simpler, compared to curved (eggbeater) type or curved-bent (Gorlov) type, allowing a large selection of materials, and design solutions. Recently, the strategies to accomplish the task of zero-emission buildings identified wind energy exploitation in the urban environment as one of the most promising. Micro and mini wind turbines installed on buildings (BAWT—building-augmented wind turbines) are considered the candidate technology after that of photovoltaic panels; under certain conditions, these technologies can be combined to obtain the maximum natural resources exploitation in the urban environment. VAWT, compared to HAWT, would ideally perform better in the fast-changing, turbulent winds, typical of the built environment. Additionally, its 3D shape favors a better architectonic integration with the volumes of the building. Nevertheless, despite these claimed advantages, this architecture did still not come to the expected fruition and experience, which revealed that the stochastic nature of the wind resource in the built environment determines a quite challenging context, reflecting not only the structural endurance, but also the operations and the annual energy production. These site characteristics stress the detrimental effect of the high polar inertia of this architecture hampering, be it a reduction in the acceleration and deceleration capability of the rotor, the required adaptation of the rotational speed to the varying wind conditions, or compromising any form of robust control. This leads to poor aerodynamic performance and potential structural damages. This paper contributes to mitigating the issue of the high rotor polar inertia of the H-VAWT without affecting other essential design requirements (strength, performances, needs of smooth control). The work identifies the design parameters governing the rotor acceleration and deceleration and develops a rational design procedure aimed at improving the H-VAWT control and performance.

scholarly journals Wind Resource Assessment for southern part of Libya: Case Study of Hun

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiba Shreif ◽  
W El-Osta ◽  
A Yagub
Keyword(s):  
Wind Energy ◽  
Power Density ◽  
Wind Turbines ◽  
Scale Parameter ◽  
Energy Resource ◽  
Capacity Factor ◽  
Wind Data ◽  
Maximum Speed ◽  
Average Wind Speed ◽  
Wind Resource

The purpose of this study is to analyze the wind energy resource potential at Hun. Wind data was analyzed using different statistical models and calculations were performed to forecast wind energy & power density at the site. Energy production was estimated using different wind turbines which were selected according IEC standards criteria and performance of these wind turbines. Detailed wind resource data analysis was performed for the proposed site using Excel spreadsheet for one-year period from (April 2011 to March 2012). The wind data are measured at four heights of (20 m, 40m, 60m and 61m) above ground level (a.g.l). The analysis showed that the annual average wind speed is 5.69 m/s and the power density is about 190 W/m2 at 61m height. It could be noticed that at 61m height, the highest scale parameter is 7.25 m/s in April while the lowest scale parameter is 5.71 m/s in October. The annual shape and scale parameters range from 2.27 at 61m to 2 at 20m, and from 6.42 m /s at 61m to 5 m /s at 20m, respectively. 90% of the speeds are below 11m/s, 84% are below 10m/s and 50% are above 6 m/s. The maximum speed is 21 m/s with 0.14% occurrence. The wind shear exponent was evaluated as 0.18 and the roughness length for the site as 0.17 m, which indicates that the roughness class for the location is 2.5. According to the performed analysis, the wind turbines suitable for this site should be of class III/B. Comparison of three wind turbines indicated that Vestas V112-3000 gave the highest capacity factor of 42% in April and an availability of 83% while Nordex N100-2500 gave capacity factor of 41% for the same month and availability of 83.7%.

scholarly journals Computational analysis of transitional and massively separated flows with application to wind turbines

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Κωνσταντίνος Διακάκης
Keyword(s):  
Large Eddy Simulation ◽  
Wind Turbines ◽  
Computational Analysis ◽  
Separated Flows ◽  
Navier Stokes ◽  
Detached Eddy Simulation ◽  
Eddy Simulation ◽  
Massively Separated Flows ◽  
Large Eddy ◽  
Unsteady Rans

Στην παρούσα διατριβή μελετήθηκε η μετάβαση της ροής από στρωτή σε τυρβώδη καθώς και η συμπεριφορά ροών μεγάλων αριθμών Reynolds στα πλαίσια προσομοίωσης τους με μεθόδους υψηλής πιστότητας.Για την προσομοίωση ροών με μετάβαση εξετάστηκαν μέθοδοι με υπολογισμό οριακού στρώματος και μέθοδοι με εξισώσεις μεταφοράς. Αυτές περιλαμβάνουν την μέθοδο e N καθώς και τα μοντέλα γ-Re θ , γ και AFT. Όλες οι μέθοδοι δοκιμάστηκαν σε αεροτομές, πτέρυγες και άτρακτο γενικής μορφής, σε εφαρμογές οι οποίες προέρχονταν από τους τομείς της αεροναυτικής και της αιολικής ενέργειας. Οι συγκρίσεις αφορούσαν κατά κύριο λόγο σε αεροδυναμικά φορτία και θέσεις μετάβασης. Στα πλαίσια διδιάστατων προσομοιώσεων, η μέθοδος e N με υπολογισμό οριακού στρώματος και το μοντέλο AFT έδωσαν πιο ακριβή αποτελέσματα από τις υπόλοιπες μεθόδους. Το μοντέλο γ-Re θ είναι μια καλή εναλλακτική, αρκεί ο αριθμός Reynolds να μην υπερβαίνει τα 6 εκατομμύρια. Πέραν αυτού του ορίου, η ακρίβεια των αποτελεσμάτων του μοντέλου μειώνεται σημαντικά. Ωστόσο, η μέθοδος e N και το μοντέλο AFT δεν δύνανται να χρησιμοποιηθούν για την μοντελοποίηση τρισδιάστατης μετάβασης στο πλαίσιο τρισδιάστατων προσομοιώσεων. Σε αυτές τις περιπτώσεις, το μοντέλο γ-Re θ εμπλουτισμένο με όρους εγκάρσιας ροής μπορεί να δώσει καλά αποτελέσματα, αρκεί ο αριθμός Reynolds να είναι στα αποδεκτά για το μοντέλο όρια. Όσον αφορά στις μεθόδους προσομοίωσης τύρβης υψηλής πιστότητας, εξετάστηκαν οι μέθοδοι Large Eddy Simulation (LES) και Detached Eddy Simulation (DES). Για τις προσομοιώσεις LES χρησιμοποιήθηκε το μοντέλο μικρών κλιμάκων του Smagorinsky. Η εφαρμογή του DES περιελάμβανε τις μεθόδους Delayed DES (DDES) και Improved Delayed DES (IDDES). Το ενδιαφέρον εστιάστηκε στην μοντελοποίηση ροών με μεγάλη αποκόλληση. Τόσο το LES όσο και το DES ήταν σε θέση να δώσουν πιο ακριβή αποτελέσματα από τους απλούς, μη-μόνιμους Reynolds Averaged Navier Stokes υπολογισμούς (Unsteady RANS) σε σύγκριση με πειράματα και υπολογιστικά αποτελέσματα από τη βιβλιογραφία. Το μοντέλο DES θεωρείται λιγότερο απαιτητικό σε υπολογιστικούς πόρους λόγω της μοντελοποίησης του οριακού στρώματος η οποία οδηγεί σε μικρότερες απαιτήσεις πλέγματος κοντά στην στερεή επιφάνεια. Ωστόσο, το DES δεν αναμένεται να μπορεί να δώσει αξιόπιστα αποτελέσματα σε ροές όπου η παρουσία και η εξέλιξη μικρών κλιμάκων τύρβης στο οριακό στρώμα είναι σημαντική, και που το μοντέλο LES πλεονεκτεί εκ κατασκευής. Σχετικά σημειώνεται ότι οι LES προσομοιώσεις δεν έφτασαν στα υπολογιστικά τους όρια όσον αφορά στο πλέγμα. Για να παραχθούν αξιόπιστα αποτελέσματα σε αυτές τις περιπτώσεις πρέπει να χρησιμοποιηθεί LES με πυκνό υπολογιστικό πλέγμα.

scholarly journals Assessing IDDES-Based Wall-Modeled Large-Eddy Simulation (WMLES) for Separated Flows with Heat Transfer

Fluids ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (7) ◽  
pp. 246
Author(s):  
Rozie Zangeneh
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Flux ◽  
Large Eddy Simulation ◽  
Skin Friction ◽  
Heat Fluxes ◽  
Separated Flows ◽  
Detached Eddy Simulation ◽  
Eddy Simulation ◽  
Large Eddy ◽  
Isothermal Wall

The Wall-modeled Large-eddy Simulation (WMLES) methods are commonly accompanied with an underprediction of the skin friction and a deviation of the velocity profile. The widely-used Improved Delayed Detached Eddy Simulation (IDDES) method is suggested to improve the prediction of the mean skin friction when it acts as WMLES, as claimed by the original authors. However, the model tested only on flow configurations with no heat transfer. This study takes a systematic approach to assess the performance of the IDDES model for separated flows with heat transfer. Separated flows on an isothermal wall and walls with mild and intense heat fluxes are considered. For the case of the wall with heat flux, the skin friction and Stanton number are underpredicted by the IDDES model however, the underprediction is less significant for the isothermal wall case. The simulations of the cases with intense wall heat transfer reveal an interesting dependence on the heat flux level supplied; as the heat flux increases, the IDDES model declines to predict the accurate skin friction.

Numerical study of the flow over the modified simple frigate shape

2020 ◽  
pp. 095441002097775
Author(s):  
Tong Li ◽  
Yibin Wang ◽  
Ning Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Bluff Body ◽  
Recirculation Zone ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
Reference Value ◽  
Flow Fields ◽  
Navier Stokes ◽  
Detached Eddy Simulation ◽  
Eddy Simulation ◽  
Delayed Detached Eddy Simulation ◽  
Simulation Results

The simple frigate shape (SFS) as defined by The Technical Co-operative Program (TTCP), is a simplified model of the frigate, which helps to investigate the basic flow fields of a frigate. In this paper, the flow fields of the different modified SFS models, consisting of a bluff body superstructure and the deck, were numerically studied. A parametric study was conducted by varying both the superstructure length L and width B to investigate the recirculation zone behind the hangar. The size and the position of the recirculation zones were compared between different models. The numerical simulation results show that the size and the location of the recirculation zone are significantly affected by the superstructure length and width. The results obtained by Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes method were also compared well with both the time averaged Improved Delayed Detached-Eddy Simulation results and the experimental data. In addition, by varying the model size and inflow velocity, various flow fields were numerically studied, which indicated that the changing of Reynolds number has tiny effect on the variation of the dimensionless size of the recirculation zone. The results in this study have certain reference value for the design of the frigate superstructure.

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