Abstract
Lightning strike damage accounts for a significant amount of wind turbines failure. An accurate evaluation of wind turbines' reliability considering lightning strike is thus of critical importance. This research develops two novel lightning stepped leader models considering the stochastic properties and the branching geometry of lightning. In the framework of the reliability analysis of wind turbine blades, the finite element analyses including the two new leader models are conducted and then the electric field in the wind turbine blades are studied. The results show that the branched model adds extra increment of the electric field in the wind turbine blades which is more practical for the wind turbine lightning protection, wind farm siting, and operations and maintenance of wind farms.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Article number | 012049 |
| Journal | Journal of Physics: Conference Series |
| Volume | 1452 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| State | Published - Mar 3 2020 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | North American Wind Energy Academy, NAWEA 2019 and the International Conference on Future Technologies in Wind Energy 2019, WindTech 2019 - Amherst, United States Duration: Oct 14 2019 → Oct 16 2019 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Physics and Astronomy