Wind turbines are designed to efficiently remove energy from the wind and by doing so, create perturbations to the atmosphere in form of wake turbulence. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the wind turbine wake turbulence poses a danger in particular to small and light aircraft. We present an assessment of the hazard of wind turbine wake turbulence to small aircraft based on detailed wake turbulence simulations. We propose a method to efficiently simulate the far wake of wind turbine a hybrid approach using a combination of the Lifting Line Theory (LLT) for the near field and Large-Eddy Simulations (LES) for the far field simulation.
History
Pagination
99-104
Location
Melbourne, Vic.
Start date
2019-02-24
End date
2019-02-26
ISBN-13
9781925627213
Language
eng
Publication classification
E1 Full written paper - refereed
Copyright notice
2019, Royal Aeronautical Society
Editor/Contributor(s)
[Unknown]
Title of proceedings
AIAC18: 18th Australian International Aerospace Congress (2019): HUMS 2019 - 11th Defence Science and Technology (DST) International Conference on Health and Usage Monitoring: ISSFD 2019 - 27th International Symposium on Space Flight Dynamics
Event
Australian International Aerospace. Congress (18th : 2019 : Melbourne, Vic.)