Turbulent flow simulation of the NREL S809 airfoil

Wind Engineering

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 287-302

  Guerri, Ouahiba ^a   Bouhadef, Khadidja ^b   Harhad, Ameziane ^c  

^a CENTRE DE DÉVELOPPEMENT DES ENERGIES RENOUVELABLES   (Algeria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY HOUARI BOUMEDIENE   (Algeria)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerodynamics; Airfoil; Computational fluid dynamics; Navier stokes; Turbulence modelling

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRAG; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; LIFT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW; UNSTEADY FLOW;

REYNOLDS AVERAGED NAVIER-STOKES (RANS); TURBULENCE MODEL;

AIRFOILS;

AERODYNAMICS; AIRFOILS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRAG; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; LIFT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW; UNSTEADY FLOW;

AERODYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW FIELD; FLOW MODELING; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; SIMULATION; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 33846299957     PISSN: 0309524X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/030952406779295471     Document Type: Article

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