- Wind loads on a solar array
- Wind loads on a solar array
- ㆍ 저자명
- Kopp. G.A.,Surry. D.,Chen. K.
- ㆍ 간행물명
- Wind & structures
- ㆍ 권/호정보
- 2002년|5권 5호|pp.393-406 (14 pages)
- ㆍ 발행정보
- 테크노프레스
- ㆍ 파일정보
- 정기간행물|ENG| PDF텍스트
- ㆍ 주제분야
- 기타
Aerodynamic pressures and forces were measured on a model of a solar panel containing six slender, parallel modules. Of particular importance to system design is the aerodynamically induced torque. The peak system torque was generally observed to occur at approach wind angles near the diagonals of the panel ($45^{circ}$, $135^{circ}$, $225^{circ}$ and $315^{circ}$) although large loads also occurred at $270^{circ}$, where wind is in the plane of the panel, perpendicular to the individual modules. In this case, there was strong vortex shedding from the in-line modules, due to the observation that the module spacing was near the critical value for wake buffeting. The largest loads, however, occurred at a wind angle where there was limited vortex shedding ($330^{circ}$). In this case, the bulk of the fluctuating torque came from turbulent velocity fluctuations, which acted in a quasi-steady sense, in the oncoming flow. A simple, quasi-steady, model for determining the peak system torque coefficient was developed.