• Wind and Structures
• /
• 제19권6호
• /
• pp.687-708
• /
• 2014

The performance of the $k-{\varepsilon}$ and $k-{\omega}$ two-equation turbulence models was investigated in computational simulations of the neutrally stratified atmospheric boundary layer developing above various terrain types. This was achieved by using a proposed methodology that mimics the experimental setup in the boundary layer wind tunnel and accounts for a decrease in turbulence parameters with height, as observed in the atmosphere. An important feature of this approach is pressure regulation along the computational domain that is additionally supported by the nearly constant turbulent kinetic energy to Reynolds shear stress ratio at all heights. In addition to the mean velocity and turbulent kinetic energy commonly simulated in previous relevant studies, this approach focuses on the appropriate prediction of Reynolds shear stress as well. The computational results agree very well with experimental results. In particular, the difference between the calculated and measured mean velocity, turbulent kinetic energy and Reynolds shear stress profiles is less than ${\pm}10%$ in most parts of the computational domain.

• Wind and Structures
• /
• 제24권2호
• /
• pp.185-204
• /
• 2017

High-resolution wind measurements at 2.25 m in height were used to investigate the mean and turbulence properties of an extreme thunderstorm wind event in West Texas. These data were combined with single Doppler scans from the Texas Tech University Ka-band mobile Doppler radars systems (TTUKa) to provide meteorological context over the surface measurement stations for portions of the outflow. Several features characteristic of a severe wind event were noted in the radar data, including a bowing portion of the thunderstorm complex and a small circulation on the leading edge. These features were reflected in the surface wind time histories and provided natural separation between various regions of the outflow. These features also contributed to the peak 1-s gust at all measurement stations. The turbulence characteristics of each outflow region were also investigated and compared. Reduced values of running turbulence intensity and elevated values of longitudinal integral scales were noted during the period of peak wind speed. Larger scales of turbulence within the outflow were also suggested via spectral analysis.

• Current Optics and Photonics
• /
• 제5권2호
• /
• pp.114-120
• /
• 2021

Free-space optical (FSO) communication is considered to be a potential solution to congestion in the radio-frequency spectrum and last-mile-access bottleneck issues in future cellular communication networks, such as 5G and beyond. However, FSO link performance may degrade significantly due to irradiance fluctuations and random temporal fluctuations from atmospheric turbulence. Therefore, in this work the main objective is to reduce the effect of the atmospheric turbulence by considering a multihop FSO communication system with amplify-and-forward relaying supported by a radio-frequency (RF) link, which form a hybrid FSO/RF communication system. The FSO link is assumed to follow the gamma-gamma fading model, which represents strong turbulence. Also, the RF link is modeled by a Rayleigh distribution. The performance of the considered system, in terms of the outage probability and average bit-error rate (BER), is investigated and analyzed under various weather conditions and pointing errors. Furthermore, the effect of the number of employed relay nodes on the performance of the system is investigated. The results indicate that the considered system reduces outage probability and average BER significantly, especially for low channel quality. Finally, the closed-form expressions derived in this work are compared to the results of Monte Carlo simulations, for verification.

• 신재생에너지
• /
• 제18권1호
• /
• pp.1-16
• /
• 2022

Climatic characteristics were described using the LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) and the met-mast on Dongbok·Bukchon region. The influences of meteorological conditions on the power performance of wind turbines were presented using the data of Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) and met-mast of the Dongbok·Bukchon Wind Farm (DBWF) located in Jeju Island. The stability was categorized into three parameters (Richardson number, Turbulence intensity, and Wind shear exponent). DBWF was dominant in unstable atmospheric conditions. At wind speeds of 14 m/s or more, the proportion of slightly unstable conditions accounted for more than 50%. A clear difference in the power output of the wind turbine was exhibited in the category of atmospheric stability and turbulence intensity (TI). Particularly, a more sensitive difference in power performance was showed in the rated wind speeds of the wind turbine and wind regime with high TI. When the flow had a high turbulence at low wind speeds and a low turbulence at rated wind speeds, a higher wind energy potential was produced than that in other conditions. Finally, the high-efficiency of the wind farm was confirmed in the slightly unstable atmospheric stability. However, when the unstable state become stronger, the wind farm efficiency was lower than that in the stable state.

• Wind and Structures
• /
• 제13권6호
• /
• pp.487-498
• /
• 2010

When designing structures to the wind action, the variation of the mean wind velocity and turbulence parameters with the height above the ground must be taken into account. This paper presents the numerical simulation results of atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) airflows, in a numerical domain with no obstacles and with a cubic building. The results of the flow characterization, obtained with the FLUENT CFD code were performed using the ${\kappa}-{\varepsilon}$ turbulence model with the MMK modification. The mean velocity and turbulence intensity profiles in the inflow boundary were defined in accordance with the Eurocode 1.4, for different conditions of aerodynamic roughness. The maintenance of the velocity and turbulence characteristics along the domain were evaluated in an empty domain for uniform incident flow and the ABL Eurocode velocity profiles. The pressure coefficients on a cubic building were calculated using these inflow conditions.

• 한국대기환경학회지
• /
• 제13권1호
• /
• pp.65-77
• /
• 1997

A theoretical and numerical investigation on the boundary-layer flow over a two- or three-dimensional hill is presented. The numerical model is based on the finite volume method with boundary-fitted coordinates. The k-$\varepsilon$ turbulence model with modified wall function and the low-Reynolds-number model are employed. The hypothesis of Reynolds number independency for the atmospheric boundary-layer flow over aerodynamically rough terrain is confirmed by the numerical simulation. Comparisons of the mean velocity profiles and surface pressure distributions between the numerical predictions and the wind-tunnel experiments on the flow over a hill show good agreement. The linear theory provides generally good prediction of speed-up characteristics for the gentle-sloped hills. The flow separation occurs in the hill slope of 0.5 and the measured reattachment points are compared with the numerical prediction. It is found that the k- $\varepsilon$ turbulence model is reasonably accurate in predicting the attached flow, while the low- Reynolds-number model is more suitable to simulate the separated flows.ows.

• 한국광학회지
• /
• 제31권6호
• /
• pp.247-258
• /
• 2020

본 논문에서는 대기외란에 따른 SPGD 위상제어 알고리즘 기반 결맞음 빔결합 시스템의 위상제어 동작성능을 논의한다. 대기의 외란에 대한 통계적 이론을 바탕으로 전산모사를 통해 대기외란에 의한 레이저빔의 위상 및 파면 왜곡에 대한 분석과 왜곡된 빔을 통해 얻게 되는 7채널 및 19채널 결맞음 빔결합 결과를 도출하고, 이를 통해 대기외란의 정도에 따른 빔결합 시스템의 위상제어 동작성능 및 효율을 수치적으로 비교분석한다. 분석 결과, 7채널 결맞음 빔결합의 경우, 대기외란 파라미터 cn2 값이 10-13 m-2/3 까지 증가한 상황에서도 SPGD 위상제어 알고리즘을 적절히 적용할 경우 90% 이상의 빔결합 효율로 시스템의 위상 잠금이 가능하다는 것을 확인하였다. 19채널 결맞음 빔결합의 경우, 동일한 대기외란 조건에서도 대기의 굴절률 비균질성(refractive index inhomogeneity)의 영향이 더 커서 빔결합 효율이 60% 수준으로 급격하게 감소할 수 있음을 확인하였다. 또한, 대기외란이 있는 상황에서 위상잠금시점까지 요구되는 알고리즘의 반복연산 횟수와 대기현상의 변화간격을 비교분석함으로써, 다채널 결맞음 빔결합 시스템이 ㎲의 간격을 가지는 대기외란 상황에서도 정상동작을 하기 위해서는 SPGD 위상제어 알고리즘의 연산대역폭이 수백 MHz에서 수 GHz까지 확장되어야 한다는 것을 확인하였다. 향후, 대기외란이 SPGD 위상제어 알고리즘 기반 결맞음 빔결합 시스템의 위상제어 동작성능에 미치는 영향을 정량적으로 분석하고 예측하는 데 있어서 본 논문의 결과가 유용하게 활용될 수 있을 것이라 기대된다.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
• /
• 제19권3호
• /
• pp.237-240
• /
• 2015

We derived the average bit error rate (BER) of coherent free-space optical (FSO) systems with digital binary phase shift keying (BPSK) modulations over atmospheric turbulence channels with a gamma-gamma distribution. To obtain a generalized derivation in a closed-form expression, we used special integrals and transformations of the Meijer G function. Furthermore, we numerically analyzed and simulated the average BER behavior according to the average SNR for different turbulence strengths. Simulation results are demonstrated to confirm the analytical results.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
• /
• 제6권2호
• /
• pp.159-164
• /
• 2005

광 펄스가 대기 채널을 통해 전송될 때, 대기 교란은 광 펄스를 감쇠시키고 퍼지게 한다. 이러한 감쇠와 펄스 퍼짐은 광 수신 단에서 펄스 도착시간의 요동에 의해 발생된다. 이러한 펄스 퍼짐이 인접 펄스간의 부호 간 간섭을 일으킨다. 결국, 부호 간 간섭에 의해 인접한 펄스들은 중첩이 되고 비트 전송률 및 무중계 전송거리를 제한하게 된다. 따라서, 디지털 통신시스템에서는 감쇠보다 펄스 퍼짐이 더 중요한 인자가 된다. 이에, 본 논문에서는 시간적 모멘트 함수를 이용하여 대기 교란상태에서 교란 상태를 나타내는 굴절을 구조 함수로 부호 간 간섭을 구하고, 수치 해석을 통해 교란 상태에 따른 부호 간 간섭을 나타내고자 한다.

• Current Optics and Photonics
• /
• 제5권2호
• /
• pp.141-146
• /
• 2021

We have evaluated the suppression effect of atmospheric-turbulence-induced optical scintillation in terrestrial free-space optical (FSO) communication systems using a gain-saturated erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA). The variation of EDFA output signal power has been measured with different amounts of gain saturation and modulation indices of the optical input signal. From the measured results, we have found that the peak-to-peak power variation was decreased drastically below 2 kHz of modulation frequency, in both 3-dB and 6-dB gain compression cases. Then, the power spectral density (PSD) of optical scintillation has been calculated with Butterworth-type transfer function. In the calculation, different levels of atmospheric-turbulence-induced optical scintillation have been taken into account with different values of the Butterworth cut-off frequency. Finally, the suppression effect of optical scintillation has been estimated with the measured frequency response of the EDFA and the calculated PSD of the optical scintillation. From our estimated results, the atmospheric-turbulence-induced optical scintillation could be suppressed efficiently, as long as the EDFA were operated in a deeply gain-saturated region.