A review of static and dynamic heliostat wind loads

M Emes, A Jafari, A Pfahl, J Coventry, M Arjomandi - Solar Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Accurate estimation of the static and dynamic wind loads on heliostats based on detailed
measurement and characterisation of turbulence is crucial to avoid structural failure and …

Amplitude modulation in particle-laden atmospheric surface layers

H Liu, X He, X Zheng - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - cambridge.org
Particle effects on the amplitude modulation are investigated in this study based on
observational data with various mass loading acquired from long-term measurements of …

[HTML][HTML] Heliostat wind loads in the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL): Reconciling field measurements with wind tunnel experiments

MJ Emes, M Marano, M Arjomandi - Solar Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper investigates similarity effects of atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) turbulence in
full-scale field measurements and wind tunnel experiments on the aerodynamic wind loads …

Effect of the integral length scales of turbulent inflows on wind turbine loads

BJ Stanislawski, R Thedin, A Sharma, E Branlard… - Renewable Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
As wind turbines become larger, the fluctuations in the inflow become increasingly influential
in the turbine structural loading. These fluctuations are characterized by the integral length …

The effect of turbulent motions on particle spatial distribution in high-Reynolds-number particle-laden flows

X He, H Liu - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - cambridge.org
The spatial relationship between turbulent and particle concentration structures is
investigated based on the turbulent velocity and particle concentration data obtained …

The influence of atmospheric boundary layer turbulence on the design wind loads and cost of heliostats

MJ Emes, A Jafari, J Coventry, M Arjomandi - Solar Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper investigated the influence of the turbulent wind fluctuations in the lowest 10 m of
the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL), depending on the surface roughness of the terrain …

Investigation of the atmospheric surface layer using a novel high-resolution sensor array

KY Huang, CE Brunner, MK Fu, K Kokmanian… - Experiments in …, 2021 - Springer
Representing land-atmosphere exchange processes as lower boundary conditions remains
a challenge in numerical weather predictions. One important reason is the lack of …

[HTML][HTML] Mesoscale nesting interface of the PALM model system 6.0

E Kadasch, M Sühring, T Gronemeier… - Geoscientific Model …, 2021 - gmd.copernicus.org
In this paper, we present a newly developed mesoscale nesting interface for the PALM
model system 6.0, which enables PALM to simulate the atmospheric boundary layer under …

On the variability of in situ surface layer refractivity measurements

DM Pastore, RT Yamaguchi, Q Wang, EE Hackett - Atmosphere, 2023 - mdpi.com
Direct measurements of profiles of atmospheric properties near the ocean surface and within
the marine atmospheric surface layer often contain a large degree of variability. The …

Wall-attached structure characteristics of flow and dust concentration fields in high-Reynolds-number particle-laden flows

X He, H Liu, X Zheng - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2024 - cambridge.org
The wall-attached structure characteristics of flow and dust concentration fields are
investigated in this study based on high-Reynolds-number () synchronous multiphase …