3-D time-accurate CFD simulations of wind turbine rotor flow fields

Collection of Technical Papers - 44th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages 4620-4642

  Sezer Uzol, Nilay ^a,b,c   Long, Lyle N ^a,b,c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Dept of Aerospace Engineering ^*  (United States)

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; ROTORS; WIND TURBINES;

FFOWCS WILLIAMS - HAWKINGS METHOD (FW-H); INVISCID SIMULATIONS; VISCOUS GRID;

FLOW FIELDS;

EID: 34250804849     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2006-394     Document Type: Conference Paper

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