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Reconstruction of wind speed fields in mountainous areas using a full convolutional neural network

  • Ruifang Shen (School of Civil Engineering, Chongqing University) ;
  • Bo Li (School of Civil Engineering, Chongqing University) ;
  • Ke Li (School of Civil Engineering, Chongqing University) ;
  • Bowen Yan (School of Civil Engineering, Chongqing University) ;
  • Yuanzhao Zhang (School of Civil Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University)
  • Received : 2023.06.01
  • Accepted : 2024.01.23
  • Published : 2024.04.25
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Abstract

As wind farms expand into low wind speed areas, an increasing number are being established in mountainous regions. To fully utilize wind energy resources, it is essential to understand the details of mountain flow fields. Reconstructing the wind speed field in complex terrain is crucial for planning, designing, operation of wind farms, which impacts the wind farm's profits throughout its life cycle. Currently, wind speed reconstruction is primarily achieved through physical and machine learning methods. However, physical methods often require significant computational costs. Therefore, we propose a Full Convolutional Neural Network (FCNN)-based reconstruction method for mountain wind velocity fields to evaluate wind resources more accurately and efficiently. This method establishes the mapping relation between terrain, wind angle, height, and corresponding velocity fields of three velocity components within a specific terrain range. Guided by this mapping relation, wind velocity fields of three components at different terrains, wind angles, and heights can be generated. The effectiveness of this method was demonstrated by reconstructing the wind speed field of complex terrain in Beijing.

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Acknowledgement

This paper is supported by China national key research and development plan (2019YFF0301904), Science Fund for Creative Research Groups of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(52221002), the 111 project of the Ministry of Education and the Bureau of Foreign Experts of China (B13002, B18062), Key Laboratory of Wind Resistance Technology of Bridge Structure and Transportation Industry (Tongji University) open project (KLWRTBMC22-01), the Natural Science Foundation of Chongqing, China (cstc2020jcyj-msxmX0773), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2020CDJ-LHZZ-018).

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