The effect of a meteorological tower on its top-mounted anemometer
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2007
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| Resumo |
The wind-speed at a site can be measured by installing anemometers on top of meteorological (met) towers. In addition to other sources of error, accelerated airflow, or speed-up, around the top of met towers can cause incorrect anemometer measurements. We consider a particular example where an anemometer was located only 2 tower diameters above the met tower. Using a standard computational fluid-dynamics package, we found the maximum error for this configuration to be 2% of the wind-speed. We conclude that a top-mounted anemometer should be located at the windward side of its met tower, raised 5 diameters above the top. This will reduce speed-up error to less than 1%. |
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application/pdf |
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Elsevier |
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http://eprints.qut.edu.au/82660/1/82660.pdf DOI:10.1016/j.apenergy.2006.09.002 Perrin, Dimitri, McMahon, Niall, Crane, Martin, Ruskin, Heather J., Crane, Lawrence, & Hurley, Brian (2007) The effect of a meteorological tower on its top-mounted anemometer. Applied Energy, 84(4), pp. 413-424. |
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Copyright 2007 Elsevier This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Applied Energy. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Applied Energy, [VOL 84, ISSUE 4, (2007)] DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2006.09.002 |
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School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science; Science & Engineering Faculty |
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Journal Article |
