Analysis of numerically generated wake structures

Wind Energy

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 63-80

  Ivanell, Stefan ^a,c   Sørensen, Jens N ^b   Mikkelsen, Robert ^b   Henningson, Dan ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c GOTLAND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Actuator line; Circulation; EllipSys3D; Wind wake

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ANGLE OF ATTACK; BOILER CIRCULATION; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; VELOCITY; WAKES;

ACTUATOR LINE TECHNIQUE; ANGLES OF ATTACK; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; ELLIPSYS3D; IN-HOUSE DEVELOPED COMPUTER; WAKE FLOW FIELD; WAKE STRUCTURES;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW FIELD; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL MODEL; VORTICITY; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 77249107659     PISSN: 10954244     EISSN: 10991824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/we.285     Document Type: Article

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