Title

Turbine power production sensitivity to coastal sheared and turbulent inflows

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-1-2015

Publication Title

Wind Engineering

Volume

39

Issue

2

First Page

183

Last Page

192

Abstract

Inflows with identical wind speeds at turbine hub height can generate varying amounts of power, depending on parameters such as vertical shear and turbulence intensity. At a commercial wind farm located in Southwestern Ontario off the shores of Lake Erie, the wind profile approaching a multi-megawatt horizontal-axis turbine has been characterized by a meteorological mast and then correlated with resulting power production across a range of hub height speeds. Using data collected over a six-month measurement campaign, inferences have been drawn on the sensitivity of turbine performance to sheared and turbulent inflows for both land and lake-influenced winds at the coastal site under study.

DOI

10.1260/0309-524X.39.2.183

ISSN

0309524X

E-ISSN

2048402X

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