Experimental and numerical investigation of the effect of turbulent inflow on a Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine (Part I: Power performance)

Qing'an Li, Junsuke Murata, Masayuki Endo, Takao Maeda and Yasunari Kamada

Energy, 2016, vol. 113, issue C, 713-722

Abstract: This study aimed to analyze the effect of turbulence intensity and wind shear on the power characteristics of a Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine (HAWT). For this purpose, the blade pitch angle and yaw were compared by using a two-bladed HAWT in the wind tunnel experiments. In this study, the turbulence intensities were generated by active turbulence grids and wind shears were obtained by an atmospheric boundary layer generation device. Through measurement of the power and thrust coefficients for each rotor configuration, the aerodynamic feasibility of this wind turbine was discussed. As a result, it was clarified that the power coefficient was strongly dependent on the blade pitch angle and yaw angle. The optimum power coefficients were 0.308, 0.321, 0.298 at the blade pitch angle of β = 4°, for the turbulence intensities of TI = 1.4%, 8.0% and 13.5%. Moreover, thrust coefficient decreased with the increase of pitch angle. For the optimum pitch angle, the maximum power and thrust coefficients obtained at as = 0.0558, showing smaller values than the results of wind shear as = 0.1447. From this study, these results were very important for developing HAWT suitable for turbulence environment.

Keywords: Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine (HAWT); Wind shear; Turbulence intensity; Power coefficient; Thrust coefficient (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2016.06.138

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