Accurate Simulation of Neutral Atmospheric Boundary Layer Using Modern CFD Models for the Applications of Large-scale Offshore Wind Turbines

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  • Tipo de apresentação: Comunicação Oral
  • Eixo temático: 8.Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento
  • Palavras chaves: Aerodynamics of horizontal axis wind turbine; Neutral atmospheric boundary layer; Reynolds stress turbulence model;
  • 1 Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
  • 2 UFRJ

Accurate Simulation of Neutral Atmospheric Boundary Layer Using Modern CFD Models for the Applications of Large-scale Offshore Wind Turbines

Mojtaba Maali Amiri

Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Resumo

Several offshore wind turbine manufacturers are designing wind turbines with rotor diameters larger than 200 m. An accurate prediction of the aerodynamic loads acting on these large-scale wind turbines is crucial for the reliable prediction of the fatigue life of these massive machines. These loads depend primarily on the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL). However, only a few CFD works, in which the linear k-ε turbulence model is predominantly employed, simulate the aerodynamic behavior of wind turbines in the presence of the ABL. Additionally, in these works, the turbulence quantities profiles are assumed to be uniform. The reason to use a uniform profile for the turbulence quantities may be due to the complexity of simulating a nonuniform homogeneous profile for these quantities. Further, more accurate CFD results can be obtained using Reynolds stress turbulence (RST) models. Therefore, the main objective of the present paper is to simulate a horizontally homogeneous neutral ABL in the commercial code STAR-CCM+ using the latest formulations of the wind speed and turbulence quantities profiles available in the literature. The simulations are conducted using the URANS equations with an RST model. The results show that, as long as the aerodynamic simulations of wind turbines is concerned a good level of horizontal homogeneity for the wind speed profile, as well as the turbulence quantities profiles, can be achieved.

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