Effects of Thermal Stability and Incoming Boundary-Layer Flow Characteristics on Wind-Turbine Wakes: A Wind-Tunnel Study

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 136, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 515-533

  Chamorro, Leonardo P ^a   Porté Agel, Fernando ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Atmospheric boundary layer; Thermal stratification; Turbulence; Wind tunnel experiment; Wind turbine wake

Indexed keywords

AXISYMMETRIC; COLD WIRE; CROSS-WIRE; HIGH RESOLUTION; HUB HEIGHT; INCOMING FLOWS; MEAN VELOCITIES; NEUTRAL CASE; NON-UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION; POWER LAW DECAY; POWER-SPECTRA; ROTOR DIAMETER; ROTOR TIP; SPECTRAL SIGNATURE; THERMAL STABILITY; TIP VORTEX; TURBINE BLADE TIP; TURBULENCE INTENSITY; TURBULENCE STATISTICS; TURBULENT FLUX; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY; VELOCITY DEFICITS; VELOCITY SPECTRUM; VERTICAL VELOCITY; VERTICAL VELOCITY COMPONENTS; WAKE REGION; WIND FARM; WIND-TUNNEL EXPERIMENT; WIND-TURBINE WAKE;

AERODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; EXPERIMENTS; FLOW CONTROL; KINETIC ENERGY; LOCATION; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMAL STRATIFICATION; TROPOSPHERE; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; VELOCITY; WAKES; WIND POWER; WIND TUNNELS; WIND TURBINES; WIRE;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANEMOMETER; STRATIFICATION; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER; WAKE; WIND FARM; WIND TUNNEL; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 77955713976     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-010-9512-1     Document Type: Article

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