Date of Award
2014
Publication Type
Master Thesis
Degree Name
M.A.Sc.
Department
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Keywords
Applied sciences, Steel tower, Wind energy, Windfarm, Wind turbine
Supervisor
Carriveau, Rupp
Rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Abstract
Onshore wind farms can experience a wide variety of wind conditions, even in simple or flat terrain, as a result of diurnal and seasonal changes in stability in the atmospheric boundary layer. At a farm in Southwestern Ontario, a commercial-sized wind turbine operates in close proximity to a meteorological mast capable of quantifying the inflow parameters of the approaching wind profile. The turbine's steel supporting tower has been instrumented with an optical strain gauge array measuring longitudinal deformation at multiple elevations. Wind conditions have been classified into two major profile types on the basis of two key inflow parameters: vertical wind shear and horizontal turbulence intensity. The resulting effects of changing profile on turbine power production and tower structural response have been characterized across changing operating conditions and wind speeds.
Recommended Citation
Smith, Jamie C., "Effects of Inflow Parameters and Operating Conditions on the Structural Response and Power Production of a Commercial Wind Turbine" (2014). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 5143.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/etd/5143