 Buoyancy jump at wind turbine wake interfaceSuhas Pol, Amelia Wenner and Luciano Castillo Renewable Energy, 2017, vol. 114, issue PB, 1224-1231 Abstract: Wake measurements of field installed, scaled-model (diameter, D=1.17m) wind turbine were performed with the purpose of studying the density differences (buoyancy jumps) at the wake-freestream interface for various atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) conditions. It is demonstrated that the density differences create buoyancy jumps or discontinuities greater in magnitude than the background ABL buoyancy. It is shown analytically that the interfacial buoyancy jump will increase with the turbine size and vary significantly with the lateral location within the wake. The existence of the buoyancy jumps is further confirmed by the observed inverse proportionality of entrainment rate (E) to interfacial Richardson number (RiB) for stable ABL conditions and constant E for unstable ABL. Further, the observations show that the wake deficit is highest for stable ABL, followed by neutral and unstable ABL. Additionally, turbulent transport of momentum is found to be the primary source of mean kinetic energy to the wake, corroborating previous studies in wind tunnels under well-controlled conditions. Keywords: Atmospheric stability; Wind turbine wakes; Interfacial buoyancy jump; Wind farm flows (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:renene:v:114:y:2017:i:pb:p:1224-1231 DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2017.07.067 Access Statistics for this article Renewable Energy is currently edited by Soteris A. Kalogirou and Paul Christodoulides More articles in Renewable Energy from Elsevier |
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