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Development and application of Auto-Wind program for automated analysis of wind resource (풍력자원해석 자동화 프로그램 Auto-Wind 개발과 응용)

  • Yoon, Seong-Wook;Jeon, Wan-Ho;Kim, Hyun-Goo
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2010.11a
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    • pp.191-191
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    • 2010
  • As many researchers want to predict or assess more about wind condition and wind power generation, CFD(Computational Fluid Dynamics) analysis method is very good way to do predict or assess wind condition and power generation. But CFD analysis is needed much knowledge of aerodynamics and physical fluid theory. In this paper, Auto-Wind CFD analysis program will be introduced. User does not need specific knowledge of CFD or fluid theory. This program just needs topographical data and wind data for initial condition. Then all of process is running automatically without any order of user. And this program gives for user to select and set initial condition for advanced solving CFD. At the last procedure of solving, Auto-Wind program shows analysis of topography and wind condition of target area. Moreover, Auto-Wind can predict wind power generation with calculation in the program. This Auto-Wind analysis program will be good tool for many wind power researchers in real field.

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Nonlinear dynamic analysis for large-span single-layer reticulated shells subjected to wind loading

  • Li, Yuan-Qi;Tamura, Yukio
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.35-48
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    • 2005
  • Wind loading is very important in structural design of large-span single-layer reticulated shell structures. In this paper, a geometrically nonlinear wind-induced vibration analysis strategy for large-span single-layer reticulated shell structures based on the nonlinear finite element method is introduced. According to this strategy, a computation program has been developed. With the information of the wind pressure distribution measured simultaneously in the wind tunnel, nonlinear dynamic analysis, including dynamic instability analysis, for the wind-induced vibration of a single-layer reticulated shell is conducted as an example to investigate the efficiency of the strategy. Finally, suggestions are given for dynamic wind-resistant analysis of single-layer reticulated shells.

Comparison of finite element analysis with wind tunnel test on stability of a container crane (컨테이너 크레인의 안정성에 대한 풍동실험과 유한요소해석의 비교)

  • Han, D.S.;Lee, S.W.;Han, G.J.
    • Journal of Power System Engineering
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    • v.12 no.6
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    • pp.29-35
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    • 2008
  • This study is conducted to provide the proper analysis method to evaluate the stability of a container crane under wind load. Two analysis method, namely structure analysis and fluid-structure interaction, are adopted to evaluate the stability of a container crane in this investigation. To evaluate the effect of wind load on the stability of the crane, 50-ton class container crane widely used in container terminals is adopted for analysis model and 19-values are considered for wind direction as design parameter. We conduct structure analysis and fluid-structure interaction for a container crane with respect to the wind direction using ANSYS and CFX. Then we compare the uplift forces yielded from two analysis with it yielded from wind tunnel test. The results are as follows: 1) A correlation coefficient between structure analysis and wind tunnel test is lower than 0.65(as $0.29{\sim}0.57$), but between fluid-structure interaction and wind tunnel test is higher than 0.65(as $0.78{\sim}0.86$). 2) There is low correlation between structure analysis and wind tunnel test but very high correlation between fluid-structure interaction and wind tunnel test.

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Wind Resource Assessment of the Antarctic King Sejong Station by Computational Flow Analysis (남극 세종기지의 전산유동해석에 의한 풍력자원평가)

  • Kim, Seok-Woo;Kim, Hyun-Goo
    • Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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    • v.27 no.3
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    • pp.29-35
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    • 2007
  • In accordance with Madrid and Kyoto Protocols, a 10kw wind turbine installed about 625m away from the King Sejong Station in the Antarctica has been in operation successfully. The current location of the wind turbine has different geographic surroundings from the previous candidate site considered in 2005 and that makes re-evaluation of wind resource at the current site including geographic effects necessary. Especially, strong wind flow derived by steep and complex terrain is dominant in the Antarctica so that computational flow analysis is required. The wind rose measured at the previous and current installation location are identical with strong meteorological correlation but prevailing directions of wind power density are different because of local wind acceleration due to complex terrain. Numerical analysis explains which effects brings this discordance between the two sites, and a design guideline required for additional wind turbine installation has been secured.

A Study on the Analysis of Correlation Decay Distance(CoDecDist) Model for Enhancing Spatial Prediction Outputs of Spatially Distributed Wind Farms (풍력발전출력의 공간예측 향상을 위한 상관관계감소거리(CoDecDist) 모형 분석에 관한 연구)

  • Hur, Jin
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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    • v.29 no.7
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    • pp.80-86
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    • 2015
  • As wind farm outputs depend on natural wind resources that vary over space and time, spatial correlation analysis is needed to estimate power outputs of wind generation resources. As a result, geographic information such as latitude and longitude plays a key role to estimate power outputs of spatially distributed wind farms. In this paper, we introduce spatial correlation analysis to estimate the power outputs produced by wind farms that are geographically distributed. We present spatial correlation analysis of empirical power output data for the JEJU Island and ERCOT ISO (Texas) wind farms and propose the Correlation Decay Distance (CoDecDist) model based on geographic correlation analysis to enhance the estimation of wind power outputs.

New GPU computing algorithm for wind load uncertainty analysis on high-rise systems

  • Wei, Cui;Luca, Caracoglia
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.21 no.5
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    • pp.461-487
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    • 2015
  • In recent years, the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) has become a competitive computing technology in comparison with the standard Central Processing Unit (CPU) technology due to reduced unit cost, energy and computing time. This paper describes the derivation and implementation of GPU-based algorithms for the analysis of wind loading uncertainty on high-rise systems, in line with the research field of probability-based wind engineering. The study begins by presenting an application of the GPU technology to basic linear algebra problems to demonstrate advantages and limitations. Subsequently, Monte-Carlo integration and synthetic generation of wind turbulence are examined. Finally, the GPU architecture is used for the dynamic analysis of three high-rise structural systems under uncertain wind loads. In the first example the fragility analysis of a single degree-of-freedom structure is illustrated. Since fragility analysis employs sampling-based Monte Carlo simulation, it is feasible to distribute the evaluation of different random parameters among different GPU threads and to compute the results in parallel. In the second case the fragility analysis is carried out on a continuum structure, i.e., a tall building, in which double integration is required to evaluate the generalized turbulent wind load and the dynamic response in the frequency domain. The third example examines the computation of the generalized coupled wind load and response on a tall building in both along-wind and cross-wind directions. It is concluded that the GPU can perform computational tasks on average 10 times faster than the CPU.

Wind Load Assumption of 765Kv Transmission Towers

  • Kim, Jeong-Boo
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and information Science
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.45-50
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    • 1996
  • This paper mainly describes the wind load assumption of 765kV transmission towers. We analyzed wind velocity data a meteorological observatories to get the wind velocity of 50 years return period by using Gumbel I type extreme value distribution. By multi-correlative regression analysis method, wind velocity at no observation site was obtained. Reference dynamics wind pressure map was obtained from above analysis and the wind pressure was classified as three regio in high temperature season.

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Analysis of Air Current Characteristics for Installing Wind Turbines Between Buildings (건물 사이에 풍력발전기를 설치하기 위한 기류특성분석)

  • Park, Min-Woo;You, Jang-Youl;Sohn, Young-Moo;You, Ki-Pyo
    • Journal of Korean Association for Spatial Structures
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.117-125
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    • 2018
  • Recently, various building integrated wind power (BIWP) approaches have been used to produce energy by installing wind power generators in high-rise buildings constructed in urban areas. BIWP has advantages in that it does not require support to position the turbine up to the installation height, and the energy produced by the wind turbine can be applied directly to the building. The accurate evaluation of wind speed is important in urban wind power generation. In this study, a wind tunnel test and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis were conducted to evaluate the wind speed for installing wind turbines between buildings. The analysis results showed that the longer the length of the buildings, which had the same height, the larger the wind speed between the two buildings. Furthermore, the narrower the building's width, the higher the wind velocity; these outcomes are due to the increase in the Venturi effect. In addition, the correlation coefficient between the results of the wind tunnel test and the CFD analysis was higher than 0.8, which is a very high value.

Proper Orthogonal Decomposition Analysis of Dynamic Wind Pressures Acting on a Tall Tower Model (고층 타워에 작용하는 동적 풍압력의 POD 방법을 이용한 시공간적 특성 해석)

  • Yi, Mee-Hwa;Ham, Hee-Jung
    • Journal of Industrial Technology
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    • v.24 no.B
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    • pp.29-36
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    • 2004
  • The wind and wind-induced dynamic wind pressures fluctuate irregularly according to time and space. In this study, the proper orthogonal decomposition(POD) technique is applied to wind pressures acting on a tall tower model, and the following results are found: the along-wind and across-wind forces can be reconstructed by only four dominant POD modes, and the reconstructed errors are 4.71% and 22%, respectively for across-wind and along-wind directions. The physical meanings for dominant modes are also presented in the paper. The POD analysis can compress complex wind pressure data only by a few dominant modes and interpret spatio-temporal characteristics of wind pressure by novel way while existing statistical methods do not have such benefits.

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A GUIDE FOR NUMERICAL WIND TUNNEL ANALYSIS IN ORDER TO PREDICT WIND LOAD ON A BUILDING (건축물의 풍하중을 예측하기 위한 수치풍동기법)

  • Lee, Mung-Sung;Lee, June-Hee;Hur, Nahm-Keon;Choi, Chang-Koon
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2010.05a
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    • pp.5-9
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    • 2010
  • A numerical wind tunnel simulation is performed in order to predict wind loads acting on a building. The aim of the present study is to suggest a guideline for the numerical wind tunnel analysis, which could provide more detail wind load distributions compared to the wind code and expensive wind tunnel experiments. To validate the present numerical simulation, wind-induced loads on a 6 m cube model is predicted. Atmospheric boundary layer is used as a inlet boundary condition. Various effect of numerical methods are investigated such as size of computational domain, grid density, turbulence model and discretization scheme. The appropriate procedure for the numerical wind tunnel analysis is suggested through the present study.

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