Experimental Study of the Transient Behavior of a Wind Turbine Wake Following Yaw Actuation

Wind tunnel experiments were performed to investigate the response of a wind turbine model immersed in a replicated atmospheric boundary layer to dynamic changes in the yaw angle. Both the flow field in the wake and the operating properties of the turbine, namely its thrust force, torque, and angula...

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Published in:Energies (Basel) 2023-07, Vol.16 (13), p.5147
Main Authors: Micheletto, Derek, Fransson, Jens H. M., Segalini, Antonio
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Air-turbines
Analysis
Angular velocity
Atmospheric boundary layer
Boundary layers
dynamic yaw
Experiments
Maneuvers
Morlet wavelet
Planetary boundary layer
Proper Orthogonal Decomposition
Reduced order models
reduced-order model
Simulation
Thrust
Turbines
Velocity
Vortices
Wavelet analysis
Wind power
Wind tunnel testing
Wind tunnels
wind turbine
Wire
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Summary:Wind tunnel experiments were performed to investigate the response of a wind turbine model immersed in a replicated atmospheric boundary layer to dynamic changes in the yaw angle. Both the flow field in the wake and the operating properties of the turbine, namely its thrust force, torque, and angular velocity, were monitored during repeated yaw maneuvers for a variety of yaw angles. It was observed that the characteristic time scale of the transient experienced by the turbine scalar quantities was one order of magnitude larger than that of the yaw actuation and depended primarily on the inertia of the rotor and the generator. Furthermore, a Morlet wavelet analysis of the thrust signal showed a strong peak at the rotation frequency of the turbine, with the transient emergence of high activity at a lower frequency during the yaw maneuver. The insights provided by the proper orthogonal decomposition analysis performed on the wake velocity data enabled the development of a simple reduced-order model for the transient in the flow field based on the stationary states before and after the yaw maneuver. This model was then further improved to require only the final state, extending its applicability to any arbitrary wind farm as a dynamical surrogate of the farm behavior.
ISSN:1996-1073
1996-1073
DOI:10.3390/en16135147