Flow characterization in the near-wake region of a horizontal axis wind turbine

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• 作者：Pooyan Hashemi Tari ; Kamran Siddiqui and Horia Hangan
• 刊名：Wind Energy
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：July 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：19
• 期：7
• 页码：1249-1267
• 全文大小：1327K
• ISSN：1099-1824

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An experimental study is conducted to investigate the flow dynamics within the near-wake region of a horizontal axis wind turbine using particle image velocimetry (PIV). Measurements were performed in the horizontal plane in a row of four radially distributed measurement windows (tiles), which are then patched together to obtain larger measurement field. The mean and turbulent components of the flow field were measured at various blade phase angles. The mean velocity and turbulence characteristics show high dependency on the blade phase angle in the near-wake region closer to the blade tip and become phase independent further downstream at a distance of about one rotor diameter. In the near-wake region, both the mean and turbulent characteristics show a systemic variation with the phase angle in the blade tip region, where the highest levels of turbulence are observed. The streamlines of the instantaneous velocity field at a given phase allowed to track a tip vortex which showed wandering trend. The tip vortices are mostly formed at r/R > 1, which indicates the wake expansion. Results also show the gradual movement of the vortex region in the axial direction, which can be attributed to the dynamics of the helical tip vortices which after being generated from the tip, rotate with respect to the blade and move in the axial direction because of the axial momentum of the flow. The axial velocity deficit was compared with other laboratory and field measurements. The comparison shows qualitative similarity. Copyright