An experimental study was conducted to investigate on the effects of the relative rotation directions of two tandwm wind turbines on the power production performance and flow characteristics in the wakes of two wind turbines in tandem. The experimental study was performed in a large-scale Aerodynamics/tmospheric Boundary Layer (AABL) Wind Tunnel located at the Aerospace Engineering Department o...

in general, the aerodynamic stability of long span bridges is evaluated based on the results of wind tunnel tests in the low reynolds number region, because in almost all wind tunnel tests, it is impracticable to satisfy reynolds number similitude. therefore, in order to correctly evaluate conventional wind tunnel test results, reynolds number effects on the aerodynamic force coefficients acting o...

In the present paper, a supersonic wind-tunnel is designed to maintain a flow with Mach number of 3 in a 30cm×30cm test section. An in-house CFD code is developed using the Roe scheme to simulate flow-field and detect location of normal shock in the supersonic wind-tunnel. In the Roe scheme, flow conditions at inner and outer sides of cell faces are determined using an upwind biased algorithm. ...

An experimental study was conducted to investigate the interferences of wind turbines sited over hilly terrains in order to elucidate the underlying physics to explore/optimize design of wind turbines sitting over complex terrains for higher power yield and better durability. The experiments were conducted in an atmospheric boundary layer wind tunnel with wind turbines sited over two-dimensiona...

The generation of offshore wind power is less predictable. This can cause the overload of offshore DC transmission system and thus requires the curtailment of wind power. To reduce the amount of wind power curtailment, a method of optimising DC power flow using DC power flow controller (DC-PFC) is proposed. The analytical expression of coordinating DC-PFCs and converters in controlling the powe...

Energy power from renewable sources, especially wind turbine generators, are being considered as an important generation alternative in the electrical power systems around the world due to their non contaminant nature and low environmental effects. In particular, the power supplied by wind generators is widely random following the random nature of weather conditions; therefore a probabilistic a...

The pedestrian-level wind environment quality in street canyons formed by high-rise buildings and other low-level buildings could be affected by multiple factors, such as the height and geometry of the surrounding buildings, street width, wind direction, and wind speed. This study conducted wind tunnel experiments to determine the characteristics of the pedestrian-level wind environment in stre...

In an effort to develop methods based on integrating the subsurface to the atmospheric boundary layer to estimate evaporation, we developed a model based on the coupling of Navier-Stokes free flow and Darcy flow in porous medium. The model was tested using experimental data to study the effect of wind speed on evaporation. The model consists of the coupled equations of mass conservation for two...

ABSTRACT: We apply CFD to visualize wind flow around a row of three square-plan tall buildings closely arranged in a row. Increase in wind load on the upwind building is observed when wind blows to the row at 30. CFD results show that the interference mechanism is mainly due by strong channeling of wind flow through the building gaps. This leads to highly negative pressures on building walls fa...

The inherent variability and randomness of large-scale wind power integration have brought great challenges to power flow control and dispatch. The distributed power flow controller (DPFC) has the higher flexibility and capacity in power flow control in the system with wind generation. This paper proposes a multi-time scale coordinated scheduling model with DPFC to minimize wind power spillage....