A Simulation Study on Risks to Wind Turbine Arrays from Thunderstorm Downbursts in Different Atmospheric Stability Conditions

Thunderstorm downbursts have been reported to cause damage or failure to wind turbine arrays. We extend a large-eddy simulation model used in previous work to generate downburst-related inflow fields with a view toward defining correlated wind fields that all turbines in an array would experience to...

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Main Authors: Nan-You Lu, Lance Manuel, Patrick Hawbecker, Sukanta Basu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-08-01
Series:Energies
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/14/17/5407