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Development of Aerodynamic Analysis Technology for Wind Turbines using a Multibody Dynamic Analysis Software (다물체 동력학 해석 프로그램을 이용한 풍력발전기 공력해석 기술개발)

  • Rim, Chae Whan;Bang, Je Sung;Cho, Huije;Moon, Seok Jun;Chung, Tae Young
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2010.06a
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    • pp.180.2-180.2
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    • 2010
  • Simulation technology for dynamic analysis of wind turbine is developed. The Aerodyn and the DAFUL are chosen for aerodynamic analysis and multi-body and flexible body dynamics respectively. Subroutines and variables of Aerodyn developed by NREL are analyzed with hub-height wind data, full field turbulent wind data and Airfoil data. The interface to perform coupled analysis between AeroDyn and DAFUL, GUI for modeling several parts of wind turbines are developed. The program will be extended to analyze the coupled analysis of aerodynamic and hydrodynamic behavior for floating offshore wind turbines.

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Experimental and Simulation Results for Sliding Mode Dynamic Wind Turbine Control using a DC Chopper

  • Riahy G.;Freere P.;Holmes D.G
    • Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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    • 2001.10a
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    • pp.650-655
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    • 2001
  • Wind speeds can vary rapidly and wind turbines cannot easily follow these variations because of their inertia and aerodynamic characteristics. For maximum energy extraction. the turbine blades should operate at their optimum tip speed ratio, but with rapid changes in wind speed. this is usually not possible. To improve the energy extraction from turbulent wind, it is necessary to establish an effective measure of the high frequency component of the wind. and then to use this measure to optimise the operation of the turbine controller for maximum energy extraction. This paper presents an approach for combining readings from three anemometers into a composite wind speed measurement. and using this signal to control the operation of a permanent magnet generator to achieve maximum energy extraction. The method combines simulation and experimental investigations into a heuristic algorithm. and demonstrates its effectiveness with field trials.

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PTV velocity field measurements of flow around a triangular prism located behind a porous fence (다공성 방풍벽 뒤에 놓인 삼각 프리즘 주위 유동의 PTV 속도장 측정)

  • Kim, Hyeong-Beom;Lee, Sang-Jun
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.22 no.5
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    • pp.708-715
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    • 1998
  • The shelter effect of a porous wind fence on a triangular prism was experimentally investigated in a circulating water channel. A porous fence of porosity .epsilon.=38.5% was installed in front of the prism model. The fence and prism model were embedded in a turbulent boundary layer. The instantaneous velocity fields around the fence and prism model were measured by using the instantaneous velocity fields around the fence and prism model were measured by using the 2-frame PTV(Particle Tracking Velocimetry) system. By installing the fence in front of the prism, the recirculation flow region decreases compared with that of no fence case. The porous fence also decreases the mean velocity, turbulent intensity and turbulent kinetic energy around the prism. Especially, at the top of the prism, the turbulent kinetic energy is about half of that without the fence.

A Numerical Study on Two-Dimensional Turbulent Flow Field Around a Building (건물주위의 이차원 난류류동장에 대한 수치적 해석)

  • Won Sung Pil;Lee Dong Hwan
    • The Magazine of the Society of Air-Conditioning and Refrigerating Engineers of Korea
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.166-175
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    • 1987
  • The heat loss of a building within a wind flow field results from convection and natural ventilation. Loss from natural ventilation is much more than one from convection, and the former depends mostly on the pressure distribution at the building surface. Therefore, the objective of the present study is to calculate the pressure distribution and investigate flow phenomena, around the building with a rectangular shape in a two-dimensional turbulent flow field. The finite difference method, modelled upon the turbulence $k-\epsilon$ model, has been applied to the analysis. The results, followed by the changes of Reynolds numbers, inlet flow conditions, and building shapes, have been also obtained, respectively. Various results of the present numerical analysis coincide qualitatively well with earlier reported empirical results.

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A Prediction of Turbulent Characteristics in a Complex Terrain by Linear Theory (선형이론에 의한 복잡지형 내 난류 특성의 예측)

  • Yoon, J.E.;Kyong, N.H.;Kim, S.W.
    • Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.79-86
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    • 2005
  • The external conditions for estimating dynamic wind loads of wind turbines, such as the turbulence, the extreme wind, the mean velocity gradients and the flow angles, are simulated over GangWon Wind Energy Test Field placed in one of the most complex terrain in Korea. Reference meteorological data has been gathered at a height of 30m from 2003 to 2004 with a ultrasonic anemometer. The absolute value of the spectral energy are simulated and the verification of this prediction has been carried out with comparing to the experimental data. The most desirable place for constructing new wind turbine are resulted as Point 2 and Point 3 due to the lower value of Turbulence Intensity and the higher value of wind resource relatively.

A Study on the Characteristics of Cylinder Wake Placed in Thermally Stratified Flow (IV) -On the Cylinder Wake with Various Heating Rates- (열성층유동장에 놓인 원주후류의 특성에 대한 연구 (4) -가열량의 변화에 따른 원주후류에 대하여-)

  • 김경천;정양범
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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    • v.19 no.5
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    • pp.1340-1350
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    • 1995
  • The effects of thermal stratification on the flow past a heated circular cylinder with various heating rates were examined in a wind tunnel. Turbulent intensities, r.m.s.values of temperature and turbulent convective heat flux distributions in the cylinder wakes with and without thermal stratification were measured by using a hot-wire and cold-wire combination probe. The phase averaging method was also used to estimate coherent contributions to the turbulent flow field in the near wake. The results show that the scalar mixing process is very different according to the mean temperature fields especially in the upper part of the wake. The coherent structure of the temperature field makes a large contribution to the time mean value like velocity components. However, the coherency of the temperature fluctuation is very different with the change of mean temperature fields, though the velocity coherent motions are quite similar in all experimental conditions.

Navier-Stokes Analysis of Pitching Delta Wings in a Wind Tunnel

  • Lee, Yung-Gyo
    • International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.28-38
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    • 2001
  • A numerical method for the assessment and correction of tunnel wall interference effects on forced-oscillation testing is presented. The method is based on the wall pressure signature method using computed wall pressure distributions. The wall pressure field is computed using unsteady three-dimensional full Navier-Stokes solver for a 70-degree pitching delta wing in a wind tunnel. Approximately-factorized alternate direction implicit (AF-ADI) scheme is advanced in time by solving block tri-diagonal matrices. The algebraic Baldwin-Lomax turbulence, model is included to simulate the turbulent flow effect. Also, dual time sub-iteration with, local, time stepping is implemented to improve the convergence. The computed wall pressure field is then imposed as boundary conditions for Euler re-simulation to obtain the interference flow field. The static computation shows good agreement with experiments. The dynamic computation demonstrates reasonable physical phenomena with a good convergence history. The effects of the tunnel wall in upwash and blockage are analyzed using the computed interference flow field for several reduced frequencies and amplitudes. The corrected results by pressure signature method agree well with the results of free air conditions.

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Reduction of Normal Shock-Wave Oscillations by Turbulent Boundary Layer Flow Suction (경계층 유동의 흡입에 의한 수직충격파 진동저감)

  • Kim, Heuy Dong
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.22 no.9
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    • pp.1229-1237
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    • 1998
  • Experiments of shock-wave/turbulent boundary layer interaction were conducted by using a supersonic wind tunnel. Nominal Mach number was varied in the range of 1.6 to 3.0 by means of different nozzles. The objective of the present study is to investigate the effects of boundary layer suction on normal shock-wave oscillations caused by shock wave/boundary layer interaction in a straight duct. Two-dimensional slits were installed on the top and bottom walls of the duct to bleed turbulent boundary layer flows. The bleed flows were measured by an orifice. The ratio of the bleed mass flow to main mass flow was controlled below the range of 11 per cent. Time-mean and fluctuating wall pressures were measured, and Schlieren optical observations were made to investigate time-mean flow field. Time variations in the shock wave displacement were obtained by a high-speed camera system. The results show that boundary layer suction by slits considerably reduce shock-wave oscillations. For the design Mach number of 2.3, the maximum amplitude of the oscillating shock-wave reduces by about 75% compared with the case of no slit for boundary layer suction.

Introduction to the NREL Design Codes for System Performance Test of Wind Turbines - Part I : Preprocessor (풍력터빈 시스템 성능평가를 위한 NREL 프로그램군에 관한 소개 - 전처리기를 중심으로)

  • Bang, Je-Sung;Rim, Chae Whan;Chung, Tae Young
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2011.11a
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    • pp.41.2-41.2
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    • 2011
  • NREL NWTC Deside codes are analyzed and introduced to develop the system performance simulation program for wind turbine generator systems. In this paper, The AirfoilPrep generating the airfoil data, the IECWind generating hub-height wind data with extreme condition following IEC 61400-1, the TurbSim generating stochastic full-field turbulent wind data, the PreComp calculating structural and dynamic properties of composite blade and the BModes making mode shapes of blade and tower are explained respectively.

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Analysis of Aerodynamic Noise at Inter-coach Space of High Speed Trains

  • Kim, Tae-Min;Kim, Jung-Soo
    • International Journal of Railway
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.100-108
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    • 2014
  • A numerical analysis method for predicting aerodynamic noise at inter-coach space of high-speed trains, validated by wind-tunnel experiments for limited speed range, is proposed. The wind-tunnel testing measurements of the train aerodynamic sound pressure level for the new generation Korean high-speed train have suggested that the inter-coach space aerodynamic noise varies approximately to the 7.7th power of the train speed. The observed high sensitivity serves as a motivation for the present investigation on elucidating the characteristics of noise emission at inter-coach space. As train speed increases, the effect of turbulent flows and vortex shedding is amplified, with concomitant increase in the aerodynamic noise. The turbulent flow field analysis demonstrates that vortex formation indeed causes generation of aerodynamic sound. For validation, numerical simulation and wind tunnel measurements are performed under identical conditions. The results show close correlation between the numerically derived and measured values, and with some adjustment, the results are found to be in good agreement. Thus validated, the numerical analysis procedure is applied to predict the aerodynamic noise level at inter-coach space. As the train gains speed, numerical simulation predicts increase in the overall aerodynamic sound emission level accompanied by an upward shift in the main frequency components of the sound. A contour mapping of the aerodynamic sound for the region enclosing the inter-coach space is presented.