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A digital twin solution for floating offshore wind turbines validated using a full-scale prototype 利用全尺寸原型验证浮式海上风力涡轮机的数字孪生解决方案
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Wind Energy Science Pub Date : 2024-01-08 DOI: 10.5194/wes-9-1-2024
E. Branlard, J. Jonkman, Cameron Brown, Jiatian Zhang
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Free-vortex models for wind turbine wakes under yaw misalignment – a validation study on far-wake effects 偏航失准情况下风力涡轮机风浪的自由涡模型--远风浪效应验证研究
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Wind Energy Science Pub Date : 2023-12-20 DOI: 10.5194/wes-8-1909-2023
M. J. van den Broek, Delphine De Tavernier, Paul Hulsman, Daan van der Hoek, Benjamin Sanderse, J. van Wingerden
{"title":"Free-vortex models for wind turbine wakes under yaw misalignment – a validation study on far-wake effects","authors":"M. J. van den Broek, Delphine De Tavernier, Paul Hulsman, Daan van der Hoek, Benjamin Sanderse, J. van Wingerden","doi":"10.5194/wes-8-1909-2023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1909-2023","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. Near-wake effects of wind turbine models using the free-vortex wake have been studied extensively, but there is a lack of validation for such predictions in the mid to far wake. This paper presents a novel validation study using three free-vortex wake models of increasing complexity: an actuator disc, an actuator disc with rotation, and a lifting-line model. We emphasise the application for dynamic wind farm flow control optimisation with a focus on wake redirection using yaw misalignment. For this purpose, wake models should provide sufficiently accurate power predictions at a low computational expense to enable real-time control optimisation. Three sets of wind tunnel data are used for validation: flow measurements under steady yaw misalignment, time-resolved flow measurements for a step change in yaw, and turbine output measurements with yaw control and simulated wind direction variation. Results indicate that the actuator-disc model provides the best balance between computational cost and accuracy in power predictions for the mid to far wake, which is not significantly improved upon by the addition of rotation. In the near wake, the added complexity of the lifting-line model may provide value as it models blade loading and individual tip vortices. Altogether, this study provides important validation for further studies into optimisation of wake steering under time-varying conditions and suggests that the actuator-disc model is a suitable candidate for use in a model-predictive wind farm flow control framework.\u0000","PeriodicalId":46540,"journal":{"name":"Wind Energy Science","volume":"37 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138956514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Feedforward pitch control for a 15 MW wind turbine using a spinner-mounted single-beam lidar 利用安装在旋转器上的单光束激光雷达对 15 兆瓦风力涡轮机进行前馈变桨控制
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Wind Energy Science Pub Date : 2023-12-19 DOI: 10.5194/wes-8-1893-2023
Wei Fu, F. Guo, D. Schlipf, Alfredo Peña
{"title":"Feedforward pitch control for a 15 MW wind turbine using a spinner-mounted single-beam lidar","authors":"Wei Fu, F. Guo, D. Schlipf, Alfredo Peña","doi":"10.5194/wes-8-1893-2023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1893-2023","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. Feedforward blade pitch control is one of the most promising lidar-assisted control strategies due to its significant improvement in rotor speed regulation and fatigue load reduction. A high-quality preview of the rotor-effective wind speed is a key element of control benefits. In this work, a single-beam lidar is simulated in the spinner of a bottom-fixed IEA 15 MW wind turbine. Both continuous-wave (CW) and pulsed lidar systems are considered. The single-beam lidar can rotate with the wind turbine rotor and scan the inflow with a circular pattern, which mimics a multiple-beam nacelle lidar at a lower cost. Also, the spinner-based lidar has an unimpeded view of the inflow without intermittent blockage from the rotating blade. The focus distance and the cone angle of the spinner-based single-beam lidar are optimized for the best wind preview quality based on a rotor-effective wind speed coherence model. Then, the control benefits of using the optimized spinner-based lidar are evaluated for an above-rated wind speed in OpenFAST with an embedded lidar simulator and virtual four-dimensional Mann turbulence fields considering the wind evolution. Results are compared against those using a single-beam nacelle-based lidar. We found that the optimum scanning configurations of both CW and pulsed spinner-based single-beam lidars lead to a lidar scan radius of 0.6 of the rotor radius. Also, results show that a single-beam lidar mounted in the spinner provides many more control benefits (i.e. better rotor speed regulations and higher reductions in the damage equivalent loads on the tower base and blade roots) than the one based on the nacelle. The spinner-based single-beam lidar has a similar performance to a four-beam nacelle lidar when used for feedforward control.\u0000","PeriodicalId":46540,"journal":{"name":"Wind Energy Science","volume":" 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138960150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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A new methodology for upscaling semi-submersible platforms for floating offshore wind turbines 提升浮式海上风力涡轮机半潜式平台的新方法
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Wind Energy Science Pub Date : 2023-12-14 DOI: 10.5194/wes-8-1873-2023
Kaylie L. Roach, M. Lackner, J. Manwell
{"title":"A new methodology for upscaling semi-submersible platforms for floating offshore wind turbines","authors":"Kaylie L. Roach, M. Lackner, J. Manwell","doi":"10.5194/wes-8-1873-2023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1873-2023","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. This paper presents a new upscaling methodology for semi-submersible floating offshore wind turbine platforms. The size and power rating of offshore wind turbines have been growing in recent years, with modern wind turbines rated at 10–18 MW in contrast with 2–5 MW in 2010. It is not apparent how much further wind turbine size can be increased before it is unjustified. Scaling relations are a useful method for analyzing wind turbine designs to understand the mass, load, and cost increases with size. Scaling relations currently do not exist but are needed for floating offshore platforms to understand how the technical and economic development of floating offshore wind energy may develop with increasing turbine size. In this paper, a hydrodynamic model has been developed to capture the key platform response in pitch. The hydrodynamic model is validated using OpenFAST, a high-fidelity offshore wind turbine simulation software. An upscaling methodology is then applied to two semi-submersible case studies of reference systems (the Offshore Code Comparison Collaboration Continuation (OC4) 5 MW and the International Energy Agency (IEA) 15 MW). For each case study, the platform pitch angle at rated wind turbine thrust is constrained to a specified value. The results show that platform dimensions scale to a factor of 0.75, and the platform steel mass scales to a factor of 1.5 when the wall thickness is kept constant. This study is the first to develop generalized upscaling relations that can be used for other triangular semi-submersible platforms that have three outer columns with the turbine mounted at the center of the system. This is in contrast with other studies that upscale a specific design to a larger power rating. This upscaling methodology provides new insight into trends for semi-submersible platform upscaling as turbine size increases.\u0000","PeriodicalId":46540,"journal":{"name":"Wind Energy Science","volume":"29 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138971697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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An analytical linear two-dimensional actuator disc model and comparisons with computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations 线性二维致动器圆盘分析模型以及与计算流体动力学 (CFD) 模拟的比较
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Wind Energy Science Pub Date : 2023-12-13 DOI: 10.5194/wes-8-1853-2023
H. A. Madsen
{"title":"An analytical linear two-dimensional actuator disc model and comparisons with computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations","authors":"H. A. Madsen","doi":"10.5194/wes-8-1853-2023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1853-2023","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. The continuous up-scaling of wind turbines enabled by more lightweight and flexible blades in combination with coning has challenged the assumptions of a plane disc in the commonly used blade element momentum (BEM)-type aerodynamic codes for the design and analysis of wind turbines. The objective with the present work is thus to take a step back relative to the integral 1-dimensional (1-D) momentum theory solution in the BEM model in order to study the actuator disc (AD) flow in more detail. We present an analytical, linear solution for a two-dimensional (2-D) AD flow with one equation for the axial velocity and one for the lateral velocity, respectively. Although it is a 2-D model, we show in the paper that there is a good correlation with axis-symmetric and three-dimensional (3-D) computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations on a circular disc. The 2-D model has thus the potential to form the basis for a simple and consistent rotor induction model. For a constant loading, the axial velocity distribution at the disc is uniform as in the case of the classical momentum theory for an AD. However, an important observation of the simulated flow field is that immediately downstream of the disc the axial velocity profiles change rapidly to a shape with increased induction towards the edges of the disc and less induction on the central part. This is typically what is seen at the disc in full non-linear CFD AD simulations, which is what we compare with in the paper. By a simple coordinate rotation the analytical solution is extended to a yawed disc with constant loading. Again, a comparison with CFD, now with a 3-D simulation on a circular disc in yaw, confirms a good performance of the analytical 2-D model for this more complicated flow. Finally, a further extension of the model to simulate a coned disc is obtained using a simple superposition of the solution of two yawed discs with opposite yaw angles and positioned so the two discs just touch each other. Now the validation of the model is performed with results from axis-symmetric CFD simulations of an AD with a coning of both 20 and −20∘. In particular, for the disc coned in the downwind direction there is a very good correlation between the simulated normal velocity to the disc, whereas some deviations are seen for the upwind coning. The promising correlation of the results for the 2-D model in comparison with 3-D simulations of a circular disc with CFD for complicated inflow like what occurs at yaw and coning indicates that the 2-D model could form the basis for a new, consistent rotor induction model. The model should be applied along diagonal lines on a rotor and coupled to an angular momentum model. This application is sketched in the outlook and is a subject for future research.\u0000","PeriodicalId":46540,"journal":{"name":"Wind Energy Science","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139005080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Quantifying the effect of low-frequency fatigue dynamics on offshore wind turbine foundations: a comparative study 量化低频疲劳动力学对海上风力涡轮机基础的影响:比较研究
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Wind Energy Science Pub Date : 2023-12-06 DOI: 10.5194/wes-8-1839-2023
Negin Sadeghi, Pietro D'Antuono, N. Noppe, Koen Robbelein, W. Weijtjens, C. Devriendt
{"title":"Quantifying the effect of low-frequency fatigue dynamics on offshore wind turbine foundations: a comparative study","authors":"Negin Sadeghi, Pietro D'Antuono, N. Noppe, Koen Robbelein, W. Weijtjens, C. Devriendt","doi":"10.5194/wes-8-1839-2023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1839-2023","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. Offshore wind turbine support structures are fatigue-driven designs subject to a wide variety of cyclic loads from wind, waves, and turbine controls. While most wind turbine loads and metocean data are collected at short-term 10 min intervals, some of the largest fatigue cycles have periods over 1 d. Therefore, these low-frequency fatigue dynamics (LFFDs) are not fully considered when working with the industry-standard short-term window. To recover these LFFDs in the state-of-the-industry practices, the authors implemented a short- to long-term factor applied to the accumulated short-term damages while maintaining the ability to work with the 10 min data. In the current work, we study the LFFD impact on the damage from the fore–aft and side–side bending moments and the sensors' strain measurements and their variability within and across wind farms. While results might vary strongly between sites, for the current site and a stress–life (SN) curve slope of m=5, up to 65 % of damage is directly related to LFFDs.\u0000","PeriodicalId":46540,"journal":{"name":"Wind Energy Science","volume":"41 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138595207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Wear test programs for roller-type pitch bearings of wind turbines 风力涡轮机滚子型变桨轴承磨损测试程序
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Wind Energy Science Pub Date : 2023-12-06 DOI: 10.5194/wes-8-1821-2023
M. Stammler
{"title":"Wear test programs for roller-type pitch bearings of wind turbines","authors":"M. Stammler","doi":"10.5194/wes-8-1821-2023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1821-2023","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. Pitch bearings are critical for the safe and efficient operation of wind turbines. They connect the rotor blades to the rotor hub and allow for pitching movements that control loads and rotor speeds. While four-point-contact ball bearings have been dominant in the past, three-row roller bearings are increasingly used in current designs due to their higher load capacity at the same diameter. Wear of the raceways is one of the possible damage mechanisms in pitch bearings. As roller bearings differ significantly from previous designs and because the operational conditions of wind turbines differ from other industrial applications, it is a reasonable de-risking exercise to undergo wear tests prior to the commissioning of such bearings. This study outlines a process for developing a wear test program based on aero-elastic simulation data and wind speed measurements. The process is then applied to an example roller bearing. The final program covers both standstill conditions and pitch cycles. The first is the main addition to former approaches. With existing test rigs and a reasonable budget and timeline, the program can be executed.\u0000","PeriodicalId":46540,"journal":{"name":"Wind Energy Science","volume":"14 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138595478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Electrostatic discharge impacts on the main shaft bearings of wind turbines 静电放电对风力涡轮机主轴轴承的影响
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Wind Energy Science Pub Date : 2023-12-05 DOI: 10.5194/wes-8-1809-2023
Jian Zhao, Xiangdong Xu, Ola Carlson
{"title":"Electrostatic discharge impacts on the main shaft bearings of wind turbines","authors":"Jian Zhao, Xiangdong Xu, Ola Carlson","doi":"10.5194/wes-8-1809-2023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1809-2023","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. This paper studies the electrostatic discharge effect in wind turbines, a possible trigger source of the main bearing current. A lab setup with a charge generator and downsized wind turbine was built to verify the impact of electrostatic discharge on the main bearing current. In the test, a fatal amplitude for the bearing current was found at only −93 mV driven voltage on the shaft. Compared with the bearing current driven by the common-mode voltage, the electrostatic discharge effect triggers the bearing breakdown at a lower shaft voltage but much higher bearing current amplitude. The results demonstrate that the electrostatic discharge effect is a pattern of the bearing current in wind turbines and is much more dangerous to the bearing.\u0000","PeriodicalId":46540,"journal":{"name":"Wind Energy Science","volume":"123 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138599627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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A method to correct for the effect of blockage and wakes on power performance measurements 校正阻塞和湍流对动力性能测量影响的方法
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Wind Energy Science Pub Date : 2023-12-04 DOI: 10.5194/wes-8-1795-2023
A. Sebastiani, J. Bleeg, Alfredo Peña
{"title":"A method to correct for the effect of blockage and wakes on power performance measurements","authors":"A. Sebastiani, J. Bleeg, Alfredo Peña","doi":"10.5194/wes-8-1795-2023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1795-2023","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. Wind turbine power performance measurements often occur at the perimeter of a wind farm, where the wind flow is subject to blockage effects, which might impact the measured power performance. We perform Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes simulations of a wind farm with five rows of 20 turbines each, operating in a conventionally neutral boundary layer, to evaluate whether the power performances measured for turbines in the upstream row would differ from that of a turbine operating in isolation under the same inflow conditions. We simulate the power performance measurements with both meteorological masts and nacelle-mounted lidars. Results show that blockage effects have an impact on the measured power performance of the wind farm turbines, with measured power coefficient varying more than 1 % relative to what is measured for the isolated turbine. In this work, we propose a method to correct for the effect of blockage on power performance measurements, yielding a curve that is more consistent with how power curves in energy yield analyses are defined and used, and thereby allowing for more useful comparisons between these curves. Our numerical results indicate that the correction method greatly reduces blockage-related variance and bias in the measured power curves. While flow modeling can be used to calculate the correction factors for actual power performance measurements in the field, we additionally show how some of the correction factors can be derived from lidar measurements. Finally, the numerical results suggest that the method could also be used to correct for the effect of wakes on power performance measurements conducted on turbines located downstream of the leading row.\u0000","PeriodicalId":46540,"journal":{"name":"Wind Energy Science","volume":"23 16","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138604036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Wake characteristics of a balloon wind turbine and aerodynamic analysis of its balloon using a large eddy simulation and actuator disk model 气球风力涡轮机的风浪特性以及利用大涡模拟和致动器圆盘模型对其气球进行的空气动力学分析
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Wind Energy Science Pub Date : 2023-11-30 DOI: 10.5194/wes-8-1771-2023
Aref Ehteshami, Mostafa Varmazyar
{"title":"Wake characteristics of a balloon wind turbine and aerodynamic analysis of its balloon using a large eddy simulation and actuator disk model","authors":"Aref Ehteshami, Mostafa Varmazyar","doi":"10.5194/wes-8-1771-2023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-1771-2023","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. In the realm of novel technologies for generating electricity from renewable resources, an emerging category of wind energy converters called airborne wind energy systems (AWESs) has gained prominence. These pioneering systems employ tethered wings or aircraft that operate at higher atmospheric layers, enabling them to harness wind speeds surpassing conventional wind turbines' capabilities. The balloon wind turbine is one type of AWESs that utilizes the buoyancy effect to elevate the turbine to altitudes typically ranging from 400 to 1000 m. In this paper, the wake characteristics and aerodynamics of a balloon wind turbine were numerically investigated for different wind scenarios. Large eddy simulation, along with the actuator disk model, was employed to predict the wake behavior of the turbine. To improve the accuracy of the simulation results, a structured grid was generated and refined by using an algorithm to resolve about 80 % of the local turbulent kinetic energy in the wake. Results contributed to designing an optimized layout of wind farms and stability analysis of such systems. The capabilities of the hybrid large eddy simulation and actuator disk model (LES–ADM) when using the mesh generation algorithm were evaluated against the experimental data on a smaller wind turbine. The assessment revealed a good agreement between numerical and experimental results. While a weakened rotor wake was observed at the distance of 22.5 diameters downstream of the balloon turbine, the balloon wake disappeared at about 0.6 of that distance in all the wind scenarios. Vortices generated by the rotor and balloon started to merge at the tilt angle of 10∘, which intensified the turbulence intensity at 10 diameters downstream of the turbine for the wind speeds of 7 and 10 m s−1. By increasing the tilt angle, the lift force on the wings experienced a sharper increase with respect to that of the whole balloon, which signified a controlling system requirement for balancing such an extra lift force.","PeriodicalId":46540,"journal":{"name":"Wind Energy Science","volume":"88 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139197128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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