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On the Wind Turbine Wake and Forest Terrain Interaction

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Author	Cheng, Shyuan Elgendi, Mahmoud Lu, Fanghan Chamorro, Leonardo P.
Copyright Year	2021
Abstract	Future wind power developments may be located in complex topographic and harsh environments; forests are one type of complex terrain that offers untapped potential for wind energy. A detailed analysis of the unsteady interaction between wind turbines and the distinct boundary layers from those terrains is necessary to ensure optimized design, operation, and life span of wind turbines and wind farms. Here, laboratory experiments were carried to explore the interaction between the wake of a horizontal-axis model wind turbine and the boundary layer flow over forest-like canopies and the modulation of forest density in the turbulent exchange. The case of the turbine in a canonical boundary layer is included for selected comparison. The experiments were performed in a wind tunnel fully covered with tree models of height $H / z_{h u b} \approx 0.36$ , where $z_{h u b}$ is the turbine hub height, which were placed in a staggered pattern sharing streamwise and transverse spacing of $Δ x / d_{c} = 1.3$ and 2.7, where $d_{c}$ is the mean crown diameter of the trees. Particle image velocimetry is used to characterize the incoming flow and three fields of view in the turbine wake within $x / d_{T} \in (2, 7)$ and covering the vertical extent of the wake. The results show a significant modulation of the forest-like canopies on the wake statistics relative to a case without forest canopies. Forest density did not induce dominant effects on the bulk features of the wake; however, a faster flow recovery, particularly in the intermediate wake, occurred with the case with less dense forest. Decomposition of the kinematic shear stress using a hyperbolic hole in the quadrant analysis reveals a substantial effect sufficiently away from the canopy top with sweep-dominated events that differentiate from ejection-dominated observed in canonical boundary layers. The comparatively high background turbulence induced by the forest reduced the modulation of the rotor in the wake; the quadrant fraction distribution in the intermediate wake exhibited similar features of the associated incoming flow.
Starting Page	7204
e-ISSN	19961073
DOI	10.3390/en14217204
Journal	Energies
Issue Number	21
Volume Number	14
Language	English
Publisher	MDPI
Publisher Date	2021-11-02
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Energies Forestry Forest Effects Turbulence Wind Turbine Wake
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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