This paper develops and evaluates a wind speed prediction model for Jeju area based on artificial neural networks, aiming at providing an accurate estimation of wind power generation to the smart grid system. For the history data accumulated for 10 years, the monthly speed change is modeled mainly to find the seasonal effect on tracing and resultant error patterns. A 3-layer model experimentall...

High speed wind tunnels are widely used in the study of fluid flow behavior around various objects. The air flow in the starting step of supersonic wind tunnels is transient including strong shock waves caused by the interaction of the tunnel main stream and the boundary layer at walls. To arrive in running step, the tunnel must be designed so as these waves leave immediately the test section. ...

A technique is described for multiple-path propagation time measurements in the surface layer of the atmosphere. This is based on solving simple bi-directional ray tracing equations on successively higher penetrating paths using propagation times for a short acoustic pulse. The scattering process from turbulence is shown to be capable of providing signals from which phase comparisons can be mad...

Estimation of wind erosion rates of Mongolian Plateau by using 137Cs tracing technique. Wind erosion is one of the major environmental problems in semi-arid and arid regions. Here we established a transect from northwest (Tariat, Mongolia) to southeast (Xilingol, Inner Mongolia of China) across the Mongolian Plateau, and selected eight sampling sites along the transect. We then estimated the so...

to enhance the understanding of the impact of obstacle buildings on pollution transportationand dispersion in the atmospheric boundary layer, it is necessary to know the atmospheric flow characteristics over terrains. wind flow characteristics in a boundary layer over a step-shaped cliff topography model with rough and smooth surfaces were studied numerically using computational fluid dynamics ...

Wind affects adversely the cooling tower thermal performance. A field investigation was carried out to study the thermal performance of Heller cooling towers under wind conditions, involving measurement of wind velocity and its direction around the cooling tower, and obtaining water flow rates and temperatures at the cooling tower inlet and outlet. Results show that air suction at the tower top...

In regard to the problem of aircraft noise mitigation, the present study focuses on the refraction effects to be possibly induced by anechoic facility jet flows on the measured acoustic signatures, during typical airframe noise experiments. To this end, Computational AeroAcoustics (CAA) calculations based on the solving of the Perturbed Euler Equations (PEE) are conducted, enabling the estimati...

Abstract A multi-unit floating offshore wind turbine concept, the wind-tracing turbine, is introduced. In this structure a triangular platform that hosts three 5 MW turbines and moored to seabed with turret-bearing mooring system. This system allows rotate about turret such total yaw moment by environmental load on minimized. study, optimum properties of lines location are determined. To identi...

Since the renewable resources of energy have become extremely important, especially wind energy, scientists have begun to modify the design of the wind turbine components, mainly rotor blades. Aerodynamic design considered a major research field related to power production of a small horizontal wind turbine, especially in low wind speed locations. This study displays an approach to the selectio...