Statistical characterization of marine wind structure over wind-turbine-relevant heights in tropical cyclones

IF 4.2 2区工程技术 Q1 ENGINEERING, CIVIL

Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics Pub Date : 2024-08-24 DOI:10.1016/j.jweia.2024.105874

J.Y. He , P.W. Chan , Q.S. Li

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Abstract

Tropical cyclones (or typhoons, hurricanes) may influence the power production and structural integrity of offshore wind turbines. However, understanding of tropical cyclone wind structure over turbine-relevant heights remains limited. Based on observations from a wind lidar and a meteorological mast at a planned offshore wind farm site, this paper investigates the marine wind characteristics, e.g., wind speed shear, wind direction veer, and turbulence intensity, over turbine-relevant heights in tropical cyclones. Statistical distributions of the marine wind characteristics are analyzed, and their variations with upstream fetch conditions and hub-height wind speeds are examined. Some noteworthy features of the marine wind structure in tropical cyclones are observed, such as the median wind veer rate of 0.018°/m and veer angle of 2.2° across the turbine rotor heights, different wind shear coefficients and wind veer rates for upper and lower rotors, and levelling off or decrease of wind shear coefficient and turbulence intensity with increasing wind speed at hub-height wind speed over 25 m/s. The outcome of this study is expected to provide useful information for design and operation of offshore wind turbines, marine platforms, and other ocean structures in tropical cyclone-prone regions.

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Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics 工程技术-工程：土木

CiteScore

8.90

自引率

22.90%

发文量

306

审稿时长

4.4 months

期刊介绍： The objective of the journal is to provide a means for the publication and interchange of information, on an international basis, on all those aspects of wind engineering that are included in the activities of the International Association for Wind Engineering http://www.iawe.org/. These are: social and economic impact of wind effects; wind characteristics and structure, local wind environments, wind loads and structural response, diffusion, pollutant dispersion and matter transport, wind effects on building heat loss and ventilation, wind effects on transport systems, aerodynamic aspects of wind energy generation, and codification of wind effects. Papers on these subjects describing full-scale measurements, wind-tunnel simulation studies, computational or theoretical methods are published, as well as papers dealing with the development of techniques and apparatus for wind engineering experiments.