Design of The Rooftops Experiment

This report describes how The Rooftop Experiment was designed to precisely measure Aeromine’s power performance in builtup environments, which are different from those in which conventional wind turbines are usually installed. The report has the following chapters:

Chapter 2 provides the background and a detailed theoretical description of the Aeromine, followed by a theoretical description of rooftop wind conditions in Chapter 3. Chapter 4 outlines how we must adapt traditional power performance measurements of conventional wind turbines to the Aeromine. Chapter 5 describes CFD simulations of a building located on the DTU Risø campus relevant for Aeromine testing, and Chapter 6 provides the final suggested experimental setup based on the previous chapters.