CFD Prediction of Performance of Wind Turbines Integrated in the Existing Civil Infrastructure

Samuel Handsaker, Iheanyichukwu Ogbonna and Konstantin Volkov
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Samuel Handsaker: Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing, Kingston University, London SW15 3DW, UK
Iheanyichukwu Ogbonna: Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing, Kingston University, London SW15 3DW, UK
Konstantin Volkov: Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing, Kingston University, London SW15 3DW, UK

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 15, 1-14

Abstract: Power generation from wind energy is almost entirely performed in rural locations or at sea, and very little attention has been given to the use of wind turbines in urban locations. Since the re-emergence of wind turbines, the majority of their applications are in large commercial wind farms in rural areas or out at sea, and there is an increasing focus on the use of wind turbines within an urban environment possibly using existing structures, such as bridges and viaducts. There are very few existing buildings which have been designed from the ground-up to include wind turbines in the structure. In order to estimate the wind resources and the performance of a turbine at a particular site, a CFD model is designed and CFD calculations are performed. In order to simplify the modelling of a wind turbine actuator, disc theory is applied. Actuator disc theory is used, as it allows the aerodynamic behaviour of a wind turbine to be analyzed by just considering the energy extraction process without a specific wind turbine design. The power output of wind turbines installed beneath an already existing civil infrastructure is determined and analyzed.

Keywords: renewable energy; wind turbine; actuator disc; viaduct; performance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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