Wind Load Analysis of Solar Farm using Computational Fluid Dynamics

There are many aspects of the current day technology where the structures are subjected to many kinds of loads. Some of them are wind loads, and some of them are static loads, static loads occur when the physical load like weight or force applied in many cases like beams and structures. But the wind loads occur as the object is resting at the location and the wind is flowing around it. In this paper, such kind of condition taken for the solar panel and the solar farm where the single panel array subjected to higher and lower velocities of wind speeds. In this project, a solar panel array mounted at the ground plane is subject to wind speeds for 5mls and 25 m/s to investigate pressure effect on each panel in the array where the panel is placed at 180 to ground plane and 720 to the latitude. The design and simulation of this problem are done using commercial CFD package fluent, a subsidiary of Ansys Inc. The work presented in the paper is done using simulation concepts of computational fluid dynamics. This work helps in getting the overview and optimization of the necessary parts and areas that are affecting by the wind, which can predict the dislocations of the solar panels.