A comparative study of numerical schemes and turbulence models for wind turbine aerodynamics modelling

Wind Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 275-290

  Baxevanou, Catherine A ^a   Vlachos, Nicolas S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Airfoil flow; CFD; Numerical schemes; Separation; Stall; Turbulence models; Wind turbine aerodynamics

Indexed keywords

FINITE VOLUME METHOD; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW; WIND; WIND TURBINES;

TURBULENCE MODELS; UPWIND;

WIND POWER;

AERODYNAMICS; AEROFOIL; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW SEPARATION; TURBULENT FLOW; WIND ENGINEERING; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 4043116910     PISSN: 0309524X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/0309524041590134     Document Type: Article

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