Status of large scale wind turbine technology development abroad?

To facilitate the large scale (multi-megawatt) wind turbine development in China, the foreign e?orts and achievements in the area are reviewed and summarized. Not only the popular horizontal axis wind turbines on-land but also the o?shore wind turbines, vertical axis wind turbines, airborne wind turbines, and shroud wind turbines are discussed. The purpose of this review is to provide a comprehensive comment and assessment about the basic work principle, economic aspects, and environmental impacts of turbines.     

Progress in wind tunnel experimental techniques for wind turbine?

Based on the unsteady aerodynamics experiment (UAE) phase VI and the model experiment in controlled conditions (MEXICO) projects and the related research carried out in China Aerodynamic Research and Development Center (CARDC), the recent progress in the wind tunnel experimental techniques for the wind turbine is sum-marized. Measurement techniques commonly used for di?erent types of wind tunnel ex-periments for wind turbine are reviewed. Important research achievements are discussed, such as the wind tunnel disturbance, the equivalence of the airfoil in?ow condition, the three-dimensional (3D) e?ect, the dynamic in?ow in?uence, the ?ow ?eld structure, and the vortex induction. The corresponding research at CARDC and some ideas on the large wind turbine are also introduced.     

Design and veri?cation of airfoil families for large-size wind turbine blades?

For the design of wind turbine blades, the use of a family of specially tailored airfoils is particularly important. The dedicated airfoils can dramatically improve the capability of capturing wind power, reduce the structural weight to save the cost of manufacturing and transportation, and lower the inertial loads as well as the loads due to gust. An overview of the world-wide wind turbine airfoil families developed since 1990’s is presented, such as the S series, the DU series, the Ris? series, and the FFA series. The design and wind-tunnel tests of the Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU) airfoil family for megawatt-size wind turbines, called the NPU-WA series, are summarized. All tests for the NPU-WA series are carried out in the NF-3 low-speed wind-tunnel with a two-dimensional (2D) test section of 1.6 m?0.8 m and at the Reynolds number ranging from 1.6?106 to 5?106 . The research activities for further improving the NPU-WA airfoils towards lower roughness sensitivity are also reviewed. The development of the new NPU-WA series dedicated for multi-megawatt wind turbines is discussed.     

Aeroelastic analysis of large horizontal wind turbine baldes?

A nonlinear aeroelastic analysis method for large horizontal wind turbines is described. A vortex wake method and a nonlinear ?nite element method (FEM) are coupled in the approach. The vortex wake method is used to predict wind turbine aero-dynamic loads of a wind turbine, and a three-dimensional (3D) shell model is built for the rotor. Average aerodynamic forces along the azimuth are applied to the structural model, and the nonlinear static aeroelastic behaviors are computed. The wind rotor modes are obtained at the static aeroelastic status by linearizing the coupled equations. The static aeroelastic performance and dynamic aeroelastic responses are calculated for the NH1500 wind turbine. The results show that structural geometrical nonlinearities signi?cantly reduce displacements and vibration amplitudes of the wind turbine blades. Therefore, structural geometrical nonlinearities cannot be neglected both in the static aeroelastic analysis and dynamic aeroelastic analysis.     

Progresses in application of computational ?uid dynamic methods to large scale wind turbine aerodynamics?

The computational ?uid dynamics (CFD) methods are applied to aerody-namic problems for large scale wind turbines. The progresses including the aerodynamic analyses of wind turbine pro?les, numerical ?ow simulation of wind turbine blades, evalu-ation of aerodynamic performance, and multi-objective blade optimization are discussed. Based on the CFD methods, signi?cant improvements are obtained to predict two/three-dimensional aerodynamic characteristics of wind turbine airfoils and blades, and the vorti-cal structure in their wake ?ows is accurately captured. Combining with a multi-objective genetic algorithm, a 1.5 MW NH-1500 optimized blade is designed with high e?ciency in wind energy conversion.     

Investigation of horizontal-axis wind turbine (HAWT) blade three-dimensional rotational e?ect based on ?eld experiments?

Field experiments are performed on a two-bladed 33 kW horizontal-axis wind turbine (HAWT). The pressures are measured with 191 pressure sensors positioned around the surfaces of seven spanwise section airfoils on one of the two blades. Three-dimensional (3D) and two-dimensional (2D) numerical simulations are performed, respectively, on the rotor and the seven airfoils of the blade. The results are compared with the experimental results of the pressure distribution on the seven airfoils and the lift coe?cients. The 3D rotational e?ect on the blade aerodynamic characteristics is then studied with a numerical approach. Finally, some conclusions are drawn as follows. From the tip to the root of the blade, the experimental di?erential pressure of the blade section airfoil increases at ?rst and then decreases gradually. The calculated 3D result of the pressure distribution on the blade surface is closer to that of the experiment than the 2D result. The 3D rotational e?ect has a signi?cant impact on the blade surface ?ow and the aerodynamic load, leading to an increase of the di?erential pressure on the airfoils and their lift coe?cient than that with the 2D one because of the stall delay. The in?uence of the 3D rotational e?ect on the wind turbine blade especially takes place on the sections with ?ow separation.     

Application of bamboo laminates in large-scale wind turbine blade design?

From the viewpoint of material and structure in the design of bamboo blades of large-scale wind turbine, a series of mechanical property tests of bamboo laminates as the major enhancement materials for blades are presented. The basic mechanical characteristics needed in the design of bamboo blades are brie?y introduced. Based on these data, the aerodynamic-structural integrated design of a 1.5 MW wind turbine bamboo blade relying on a conventional platform of upwind, variable speed, variable pitch, and doubly-fed generator is carried out. The process of the structural layer design of bamboo blades is documented in detail. The structural strength and fatigue life of the designed wind turbine blades are certified. The technical issues raised from the design are discussed. Key problems and direction of the future study are also summarized.     

Recent progresses in studies on wave-current loads on foundation structure with piles and slab?

The foundation structure with piles and slab is widely used in o?shore wind farm construction in shallow water. Experimental studies on the hydrodynamic loads acting on the piles and slab under irregular waves and currents are summarized with discussion on the e?ects of pile grouping on the wave forces and wave impact loads on the slab locating near the free surface. By applying the theoretical solution of the wave di?racted by the slab and using the Morison equation to evaluate the wave force on the piles, the e?ects of the slab on the wave forces acting on the piles are analyzed. Based on the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations and the volume of ?uid (VOF) method, a numerical wave basin is developed to simulate the wave-structure interaction. The computed maximum wave force on the foundation structure with piles and slab agrees well with the measured data. The violent deformation, breaking, and run-up of the wave around the structure are presented and discussed. Further work on the turbulent ?ow structures and large deformation of the free surface due to interaction of the waves and foundation structures of o?shore wind farms needs more e?cient approaches for evaluating hydrodynamic loads under the e?ects of nonlinear waves and currents.     

Research status and trend of wind turbine aerodynamic noise?

The main components of the wind turbine aerodynamic noise are introduced. A detailed review is given on the theoretical prediction, experimental measurement, and numerical simulation methods of wind turbine noise, with speci?c attention to appli-cations. Furthermore, suppression techniques of wind turbine aerodynamic noise are discussed. The perspective of future research on the wind turbine aerodynamic noise is presented.     

On deep holes of standard Reed-Solomon codes

Determining deep holes is an important open problem in decoding Reed-Solomon codes. It is well known that the received word is trivially a deep hole if the degree of its Lagrange interpolation polynomial equals the dimension of the Reed-Solomon code. For the standard Reed-Solomon codes [p-1, k]p with p a prime, Cheng and Murray conjectured in 2007 that there is no other deep holes except the trivial ones. In this paper, we show that this conjecture is not true. In fact, we find a new class of deep holes for standard Reed-Solomon codes [q-1, k]q with q a power of the prime p. Let q≥4 and 2≤k≤q-2. We show that the received word u is a deep hole if its Lagrange interpolation polynomial is the sum of monomial of degree q-2 and a polynomial of degree at most k-1. So there are at least 2(q-1)qk deep holes if k q-3.     

Bifurcations and Stability Boundary of a Power System

A single-axis flux decay model including an excitation control model proposed in [12,14,16] isstudied.As the bifurcation parameter P_m (input power to the generator) varies,the system exhibits dynamicsemerging from static and dynamic bifurcations which link with system collapse.We show that the equilibriumpoint of the system undergoes three bifurcations:one saddle-node bifurcation and two Hopf bifurcations.Thestate variables dominating system collapse are different for different critical points,and the excitative controlmay play an important role in delaying system from collapsing.Simulations are presented to illustrate thedynamical behavior associated with the power system stability and collapse.Moreover,by computing the localquadratic approximation of the 5-dimensional stable manifold at an order 5 saddle point,an analytical expressionfor the approximate stability boundary is worked out.     

Differential-operator representations of Weyl group and singular vectors in Verma modules

Given a suitable ordering of the positive root system associated with a semisimple Lie algebra,there exists a natural correspondence between Verma modules and related polynomial algebras. With this, the Lie algebra action on a Verma module can be interpreted as a differential operator action on polynomials, and thus on the corresponding truncated formal power series. We prove that the space of truncated formal power series gives a differential-operator representation of the Weyl group W. We also introduce a system of partial differential equations to investigate singular vectors in the Verma module. It is shown that the solution space of the system in the space of truncated formal power series is the span of {w(1) | w ∈ W }. Those w(1) that are polynomials correspond to singular vectors in the Verma module. This elementary approach by partial differential equations also gives a new proof of the well-known BGG-Verma theorem.     

A priori error analysis of a discontinuous Galerkin approximation for a kind of compressible miscible displacement problems

A kind of compressible miscible displacement problems which include molecular diffusion and dispersion in porous media are investigated.A symmetric interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin (SIPG) method is applied to the coupled system of flow and transport.Using the induction hypotheses instead of the cut-off operator and the interpolation projection properties,a priori hp error estimates are presented.The error bounds in L2(H1) norm for concentration and in L∞(L2) norm for velocity are optimal in h and suboptimal in p with a loss of power 1/2.     

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS OF ENERGY OF ONE-DIMENSIONAL PARTICLES OF TWO KINDS IN THE ENERGY EIGENSTATES

Starting from Voe Neumann's axiomatic system of quantum mechanics, this paper calculates the probability distributions of the kinetic and potential energy of the one-dimensional harmonic oscillator and the particle in one-dimensional infinitely deep square potential well. The results are compared with the classical cases, and it is shown that their relation conforms to Bohr's correspondence principle. Then we put forward a new viewpoint: it seems that the concept of the total energy of the particle in quantum mechanics should be deliberated again; the two basic hypotheses in quantum mechanics-"Bohr's probabilistic interpretation" and "the postulate that the particle's energy eguals the eigenvalue in the energy eigenstate" ars not logically harmonious. At the sametime, the limitation of von Neumann's axiomatic system is pointed out.     

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS OF ENERGY OF ONE-DIMENSIONAL PARTICLES OF TWO KINDS IN THE ENERGY EIGENSTATES

Starting from Voe Neumann's axiomatic system of quantum mechanics, this paper calculates the probability distributions of the kinetic and potential energy of the one-dimensional harmonic oscillator and the particle in one-dimonsional infinitely deep square potential well. The results are compared with the classical cases, and it is shown that their relation conforms to Bohr's correspondence principle.Then we put forward a new viewpoint:it seems that the concept of the total energy of the particle in quantum mechanics should be deliberated again; the two basic hypotheses in quantum mechanics--"Bohr's probabilistic interpretation" and "the postulate that the particle's energy eguals the eigenvalue in the energy eigenstate" ars not logically harmonious. At the same time, the limitation of von Neumann's axiomatic system is pointed out.     

Stability criteria for linear second order delay differential system

Consider second order delay differential system where r is a positive constant and all coefficients are real constants.Our main results are as follows:(1) The maximal length of the delay for which the stability of system (*) is maintained is given in the case where the zero solution of system (*) is asymptotically stable in the absence of delay.(2) The necessary and sufficient criteria for judging that asymptetical stability of system (*) is preserved for an arbitrary large delay are obtained.     

Bi-center Problem in a Class of Z2-equivariant Quintic Vector Fields

In this paper, we study the center problem for Z2-equivariant quintic vector ?elds. First of all, for convenience in analysis, the system is simpli?ed by using some transformations. When the system has two nilpotent points at (0,±1) with multiplicity three, the ?rst seven Lyapunov constants at the singular points are calculated by applying the inverse integrating factor method. Then, ?fteen center conditions are obtained for the two nilpotent singular points of the system to be centers, and the su?ciency of the ?rst seven center conditions are proved. Finally, the ?rst ?ve Lyapunov constants are calculated at the two nilpotent points (0,±1) with multiplicity ?ve by using the method of normal forms, and the center problem of this system is partially solved.     

On the Winding of Stationary Diffusions

In this paper, the winding of stationary diffusions are studied. It is shown that, differently from Brownian motions,stationary diffusions wind up to time t angles in order of t, while Brownian motions wind up angles in order of logt,and the winding rates tend to , where c, an-i c2 are constants and is a Cauchy random variable.Moreover, it is proved that a stationary diffusion is reversible iff c2=0 for the winding around every point.     

THE QUEUEING SYSTEM M~(x)/M/c→/PH~(r)/1/K

The two-stage tandem queueing system M(z)/M/c→/PH(r)/1/K is studied in this paper. Customers arrive at stage-Ⅰ system in batches according to a Poisson process, and the size of the batch, x , is a r. v. within a range of a finite number of positive integers. The stage- Ⅱ ststem has finite capacity, where customers are served in batches with a PH-distribution and the size of the batch is a positive integer r. Only after served in stage- Ⅰ system, and then served in stage- Ⅱ system, can the customers depart from the whole system. Several definitions such as the stage- Ⅰ service blocked time, the first-class and the second-class batch waiting times, and the batch sojourn time are introduced, and their distributions are obtained respectively.     

Maximization of the sum of the trace ratio on the Stiefel manifold,I: Theory

We are concerned with the maximization of tr(VTAV)/tr(VT BV)+ tr(VT CV)over the Stiefel manifold {V ∈ Rm×| V T V = It}(t m), where B is a given symmetric and positive definite matrix, A and C are symmetric matrices, and tr() is the trace of a square matrix. This is a subspace version of the maximization problem studied in Zhang(2013), which arises from real-world applications in, for example,the downlink of a multi-user MIMO system and the sparse Fisher discriminant analysis in pattern recognition.We establish necessary conditions for both the local and global maximizers and connect the problem with a nonlinear extreme eigenvalue problem. The necessary condition for the global maximizers offers deep insights into the problem, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, naturally leads to a self-consistent-field(SCF)iteration to be presented and analyzed in detail in Part II of this paper.