Wind Tunnel Experiment of a Micro Wind Farm Model with 60 Instrumented Disks

Simultaneous strain gage measurements from sixty porous disk models in a scaled wind farm of one hundred models, across fifty-six different layouts. The data contains reconstructed velocity signals and spatial coordinates for each instrumented disk. The dataset is associated with research from KU Leuven and is published in Physical Review Fluids, Experiments in Fluids, and the Journal of Fluid Mechanics.

Use Cases

• Analyzing wind farm power fluctuations based on simultaneous velocity measurements from 60 disks.
• Studying the effect of wind farm layout on boundary layer regimes based on 56 tested configurations.
• Modeling unsteady loading on turbine models based on high-frequency strain gage data.
• Validating computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations of wind farms using experimental wind tunnel data.

Strengths

• Contains data from 60 simultaneously sampled porous disk models, providing a detailed spatial view.
• Covers 56 different wind farm layouts, allowing for comparative analysis of configuration effects.
• Data includes precise spatial coordinates (x, y) for each instrumented model in units of disk diameter.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred from the provided research papers.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for specific modeling tasks.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Juliaan Bossuyt, KU Leuven

Collection Method

Wind tunnel experiment with simultaneous strain gage measurements on scaled porous disk models.