海上风电机运营期的水下振动与噪声传播建模

Vibration and Noise Propagation Modeling for Offshore Wind Turbines During Operational Phase

  • 摘要: 海上风电机运营期持续向水中辐射低频噪声,查明其声源机制与传播特征,可为运营海域水下声环境评估与海洋生态保护提供依据。本文基于上海东海大桥风电场#66号W6.5F-185型风电机的72 h桩基振动与水下噪声同步观测数据,阐明了风速及叶轮转速对桩基振动特性的调控规律,并证实水下噪声线谱与结构振动之间具有高度的同源相关性;在此基础上,以实测桩基加速度经傅里叶变换得到的频域数据作为边界激励,在COMSOL Multiphysics平台上构建了二维轴对称坐标系下的数据驱动有限元声传播模型,实现了从钢管桩向浅海环境的声辐射过程数值模拟。在63~500 Hz的频段,模型预测的各频点声压级与实测值吻合良好,风电机变速运行状态下距离桩基30 m、60 m观测位置处均方根误差(RMSE)分别为3.75 dB和3.50 dB,恒速运行状态下的均方根误差(RMSE)则分别为4.96 dB和3.61 dB,整体均方根误差均低于5 dB。结果表明,该方法能够较准确地模拟海上风电机运营期浅海声场,为海上风电机水下噪声的机制研究与定量评估提供了有效途径。

     

    Abstract: Offshore wind turbines continuously radiate low-frequency underwater noise during operation. Identifying the source mechanism and characterizing the propagation of the radiated sound field are fundamental to the assessment of the underwater acoustic environment and the protection of the marine ecosystem in operational sea areas. Based on 72 h synchronized measurements of pile vibration and underwater noise from the No. 66 W6.5F-185 wind turbine at the Donghai Bridge Offshore Wind Farm in Shanghai, this study clarified the regulatory effects of wind speed and rotor speed on the vibration characteristics of the pile foundation, and confirmed the high homologous correlation between underwater noise line spectra and structural vibration. On this basis, a data-driven finite element acoustic propagation model was developed on the COMSOL Multiphysics platform in a two-dimensional axisymmetric coordinate system, in which the frequency-domain spectra of the measured pile acceleration obtained via the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) were adopted as the boundary excitation, enabling numerical simulation of the acoustic radiation process from the steel pipe pile into the shallow-water environment. Within the frequency band of 63-500 Hz, the sound pressure levels predicted by the model agree well with the measured values. The root mean square errors (RMSE) at the observation positions 30 m and 60 m from the pile are 3.75 dB and 3.50 dB under variable-speed operation, and 4.96 dB and 3.61 dB under constant-speed operation, respectively, all below 5 dB. The results demonstrate that the proposed method can simulate the shallow-water acoustic field during offshore wind turbine operation with satisfactory accuracy, providing an effective approach for the mechanism research and quantitative assessment of underwater noise from offshore wind turbines.

     

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