Do wind turbines pose roll hazards to light aircraft? [electronic resource]

• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 621.44 Geothermal engineering
• Thông tin xuất bản: Washington, D.C. : Oak Ridge, Tenn. : United States. Dept. of Energy. Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy ; Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 2018
• Mô tả vật lý: Size: p. 833-843 : , digital, PDF file.
• Bộ sưu tập: Metadata
• ID: 257264
• Chủ đề: 1. 17 wind energy; 2. Aircraft; 3. Large-eddy simulations; 4. Wakes

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 km of a small airport. Wind turbines generate electricity byextracting momentum from the atmosphere, creating downwind wakescharacterized by wind-speed deficits and increased turbulence. Recently, theconcern that turbine wakes pose hazards for small aircraft has been used tolimit wind-farm development. Herein, we assess roll hazards to small aircraftusing large-eddy simulations (LES) of a utility-scale turbine wake. Wind-generatedlift forces and subsequent rolling moments are calculated for hypotheticalaircraft transecting the wake in various orientations. Stably and neutrallystratified cases are explored, with the stable case presenting a possibleworst-case scenario due to longer-persisting wakes permitted by lower ambientturbulence. In both cases, only 0.001<
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 % of rolling moments experienced byhypothetical aircraft during down-wake and cross-wake transects lead to anincreased risk of rolling.<
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