Assessment of sound propagation modelling from a wind turbine site at sea

• We present results from numerical modelling of sound propagation from Utgrunden lighthouse in Kalmarsund to a receiver at Hammarby on the island Ö land east of Sweden in the Baltic. The propagation distances from source to shore and from shore to receiver are ca 9 km and 0.7 km, respectively. Our purpose is to assess prediction of atmospheric sound propagation by methods that use detailed knowledge of the local geometry and meteorology, by comparing model predictions of the transmission loss with experimental data. The experimental data, collected several times daily during a one-week campaign in June 2005, consist of (i) data on the transmission loss of narrow band signals from controlled sources with frequencies 80 Hz, 200 Hz and 400 Hz, (ii) atmospheric parameters as function of height from radio-soundings and balloon-tracking at the receiver location and (iii) atmospheric parameters from sensors mounted on a meteorological mast at the source location. Model-predicted soundfields were computed once per hour during the one-week period, with a windfield composed of a laminar field determined from data at the receiver, superimposed by a turbulent field determined by data from the meteorological mast. Comparisons of the experimentally observed transmission loss with predictions by the Green's Function Parabolic Equation (GFPE) method by Gilbert and Di are presented. A reasonably good fit of the model predicted transmission loss as function of time to experimental data at all frequencies is observed.

Ämnesord

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Maskinteknik -- Strömningsmekanik och akustik (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Mechanical Engineering -- Fluid Mechanics and Acoustics (hsv//eng)

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Atmospheric parameters

Controlled source

Function of time

Local geometry

Model prediction

Narrowband signal

Parabolic Equations

Propagation distances

Receiver location

Sound propagation

Source location

Transmission loss

Turbulent fields

Acoustic wave propagation

Forecasting

Partial differential equations

Wave transmission

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