An on-site measurement coupled CFD based approach for wind resource assessment over complex terrains

Xiao Yu Tang; Bernhard Stoevesandt; Bo Fan; Siliang Li; Qinmin Yang; Thavatchai Tayjasanant; Youxian Sun

doi:10.1109/I2MTC.2018.8409651

An on-site measurement coupled CFD based approach for wind resource assessment over complex terrains

Xiao Yu Tang, Bernhard Stoevesandt, Bo Fan, Siliang Li, Qinmin Yang, Thavatchai Tayjasanant, Youxian Sun

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Abstract

Wind resource assessment, especially for regions with complex terrain, is one of the most essential topics for wind energy development. In this paper, a novel method based on on-site measurement coupled to computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations is proposed to reproduce the spatial variability of wind speed distribution over the region with complex terrain. The on-site measurement data of wind speeds are adopted in the data fusion for wind speed distribution estimation and reproduction, combined with the simulation results of CFD. Next, a case study on wind resource assessment for a wind farm in complex terrain, located in Hebei Province, China was done. One year wind measurements with anemometers on three different sites were performed adopting the proposed approach. A cross-validation of the results of the proposed method against on-site wind speed measurement data indicates a good agreement. The results show that the approach proposed have reproduced a wind resource map with high resolution and the wind speed estimations for one spot within the wind farm are with a root-mean-square error of 0.399 m/s, which is qualified for wind farm planning in complex terrain.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	I2MTC 2018 - 2018 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference : Discovering New Horizons in Instrumentation and Measurement, Proceedings
Number of pages	6
Publisher	IEEE
Publication date	10 Jul 2018
Pages	1-6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781538622223
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/I2MTC.2018.8409651
Publication status	Published - 10 Jul 2018
Externally published	Yes
Event	2018 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, I2MTC 2018 - Houston, United States Duration: 14 May 2018 → 17 May 2018

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Conference	2018 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, I2MTC 2018
Country/Territory	United States
City	Houston
Period	14/05/2018 → 17/05/2018
Sponsor	IEEE, IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society

Series	I2MTC 2018 - 2018 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference: Discovering New Horizons in Instrumentation and Measurement, Proceedings

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61673347, 61751205).

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Copyright 2018 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

Keywords

complex terrain
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
on-site measurement validation
wind energy
wind resource assessment

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Tang, X. Y., Stoevesandt, B., Fan, B., Li, S., Yang, Q., Tayjasanant, T., & Sun, Y. (2018). An on-site measurement coupled CFD based approach for wind resource assessment over complex terrains. In I2MTC 2018 - 2018 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference: Discovering New Horizons in Instrumentation and Measurement, Proceedings (pp. 1-6). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/I2MTC.2018.8409651

Tang, Xiao Yu ; Stoevesandt, Bernhard ; Fan, Bo et al. / An on-site measurement coupled CFD based approach for wind resource assessment over complex terrains. I2MTC 2018 - 2018 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference: Discovering New Horizons in Instrumentation and Measurement, Proceedings. IEEE, 2018. pp. 1-6 (I2MTC 2018 - 2018 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference: Discovering New Horizons in Instrumentation and Measurement, Proceedings).

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