Simulating wind turbine interactions using the vorticity transport model

47th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Fletcher, Timothy M ^a   Brown, Richard E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC CONFIGURATIONS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; VORTICITY; WAKES; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

AERO-DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE; AERODYNAMIC INTERACTIONS; AERODYNAMIC LOADING; BLADE STRUCTURES; MULTIPLE ROTORS; OPERATING CONDITION; TIP SPEED RATIO; VORTICITY TRANSPORT MODEL;

TURBINE COMPONENTS;

EID: 78549247895     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2009-838     Document Type: Conference Paper

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