One of the main challenges of urban wind energy harvesting is the understanding of the flow characteristics where urban wind turbines are to be installed. Among viable locations within the urban environment, high-rise buildings are particularly promising due to the elevated height and relatively undisturbed wind conditions. Most research studies on high-rise buildings deal with the calculation of the wind loads in terms of surface pressure. In the present paper, flow pattern characteristics are investigated for a typical high-rise building in a variety of configurations and wind directions in wind tunnel tests. The aim is to improve the understanding of the wind energy resource in the built environment and give designers meaningful data on the positioning strategy of wind turbines to improve performance. In addition, the study provides suitable and realistic turbulence characteristics to be reproduced in physical or numerical simulations of urban wind turbines for several locations above ...the roof region of the building. The study showed that at a height of 10 m from the roof surface, the flow resembles atmospheric turbulence with an enhanced turbulence intensity above 10% combined with large length scales of about 200 m. Results also showed that high-rise buildings in clusters might provide a very suitable configuration for the installation of urban wind turbines, although there is a strong difference between the performance of a wind turbine installed at the centre of the roof and one installed on the leeward and windward corners or edges, depending on the wind direction.
Keywords:
wind tunnel / building aerodynamics / urban wind energy / turbulent flows
Source:
Energies, 2020, 13
Publisher:
MDPI
Funding / projects:
COST Action TU1804 WINERCOST—“Wind Energy to enhance the concept of Smart cities”
Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) under project reference C19/SR/13639741
European Commission’s Framework Program “Horizon 2020” through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN) “AEOLUS4FUTURE—E cient harvesting of the wind energy” (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2014: Grant agreement no. 643167)
TY - JOUR
AU - Vita, Giulio
AU - Šarkić-Glumac, Anina
AU - Hemida, Hassan
AU - Salvadori, Simone
AU - Baniotopoulos, Charalampos
PY - 2020
UR - https://grafar.grf.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/2117
AB - One of the main challenges of urban wind energy harvesting is the understanding of the flow characteristics where urban wind turbines are to be installed. Among viable locations within the urban environment, high-rise buildings are particularly promising due to the elevated height and relatively undisturbed wind conditions. Most research studies on high-rise buildings deal with the calculation of the wind loads in terms of surface pressure. In the present paper, flow pattern characteristics are investigated for a typical high-rise building in a variety of configurations and wind directions in wind tunnel tests. The aim is to improve the understanding of the wind energy resource in the built environment and give designers meaningful data on the positioning strategy of wind turbines to improve performance. In addition, the study provides suitable and realistic turbulence characteristics to be reproduced in physical or numerical simulations of urban wind turbines for several locations above the roof region of the building. The study showed that at a height of 10 m from the roof surface, the flow resembles atmospheric turbulence with an enhanced turbulence intensity above 10% combined with large length scales of about 200 m. Results also showed that high-rise buildings in clusters might provide a very suitable configuration for the installation of urban wind turbines, although there is a strong difference between the performance of a wind turbine installed at the centre of the roof and one installed on the leeward and windward corners or edges, depending on the wind direction.
PB - MDPI
T2 - Energies
T1 - On the Wind Energy Resource above High-Rise Buildings
VL - 13
DO - 10.3390/en13143641
ER -
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abstract = "One of the main challenges of urban wind energy harvesting is the understanding of the flow characteristics where urban wind turbines are to be installed. Among viable locations within the urban environment, high-rise buildings are particularly promising due to the elevated height and relatively undisturbed wind conditions. Most research studies on high-rise buildings deal with the calculation of the wind loads in terms of surface pressure. In the present paper, flow pattern characteristics are investigated for a typical high-rise building in a variety of configurations and wind directions in wind tunnel tests. The aim is to improve the understanding of the wind energy resource in the built environment and give designers meaningful data on the positioning strategy of wind turbines to improve performance. In addition, the study provides suitable and realistic turbulence characteristics to be reproduced in physical or numerical simulations of urban wind turbines for several locations above the roof region of the building. The study showed that at a height of 10 m from the roof surface, the flow resembles atmospheric turbulence with an enhanced turbulence intensity above 10% combined with large length scales of about 200 m. Results also showed that high-rise buildings in clusters might provide a very suitable configuration for the installation of urban wind turbines, although there is a strong difference between the performance of a wind turbine installed at the centre of the roof and one installed on the leeward and windward corners or edges, depending on the wind direction.",
publisher = "MDPI",
journal = "Energies",
title = "On the Wind Energy Resource above High-Rise Buildings",
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Vita, G., Šarkić-Glumac, A., Hemida, H., Salvadori, S.,& Baniotopoulos, C.. (2020). On the Wind Energy Resource above High-Rise Buildings. in Energies
MDPI., 13.
https://doi.org/10.3390/en13143641
Vita G, Šarkić-Glumac A, Hemida H, Salvadori S, Baniotopoulos C. On the Wind Energy Resource above High-Rise Buildings. in Energies. 2020;13.
doi:10.3390/en13143641 .
Vita, Giulio, Šarkić-Glumac, Anina, Hemida, Hassan, Salvadori, Simone, Baniotopoulos, Charalampos, "On the Wind Energy Resource above High-Rise Buildings" in Energies, 13 (2020),
https://doi.org/10.3390/en13143641 . .
