Generation of user defined turbulent inflow conditions by an active grid for validation experiments

Conference paper (2018)

Authors

Lars Kröger University of Oldenburg
J.A. Frederik Team Jan-Willem van Wingerden - Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering
J.W. van Wingerden Team Jan-Willem van Wingerden - Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering
Joachim Peinke University of Oldenburg
Michael Hölling University of Oldenburg
Research Group
Team Jan-Willem van Wingerden (Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2018 Lars Kröger, J.A. Frederik, J.W. van Wingerden, Joachim Peinke, Michael Hölling
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1037/5/052002
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Published Date

2018

Language

English

Faculty

Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering

Department

Delft Center for Systems and Control

Research Group

Team Jan-Willem van Wingerden

Abstract

A wind tunnel experiment is presented which combines the use of controlled turbulent inflow conditions and a two-bladed model wind turbine utilizing a new control strategy called subspace predictive repetitive control (SPRC). The validation of the performance of SPRC was made under turbulent inflow conditions generated by an active grid. The 3m × 3m active grid is used in this experiment using a unique method to generate reproducible atmospheric- like turbulent wind fields to act on a medium sized model wind turbine. This contribution is focussing on the detailed description of the experiment and its components and the analysis of the turbulent inflow by means of one and two point statistics. Exemplarily the impact of the new control strategy to the generated turbulent test cases are discussed.