Numerical modeling of wind turbine wakes

Journal of Fluids Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 393-399

  Sørensen, Jens Nørkær ^a   Shen, Wen Zhong ^a,b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATOR LINE TECHNIQUE; THREE DIMENSIONAL FLOW FIELDS; VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION; VORTEX SHEET;

ACTUATORS; AERODYNAMICS; AIRFOILS; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; VORTEX FLOW; WAKES;

WIND TURBINES;

EID: 0142096194     PISSN: 00982202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1471361     Document Type: Article

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