The influence of stable boundary layer flows on wind turbine fatigue loads

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Sim, Chungwook ^a   Basu, Sukanta ^b   Manuel, Lance ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATED FATIGUE DAMAGE; AEROELASTIC MODELS; ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; ATMOSPHERIC FLOWS; ATMOSPHERIC STABILITY; FATIGUE LOADS; FOURIER TECHNIQUES; FRACTAL INTERPOLATION; GEOSTROPHIC WINDS; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HUB HEIGHT; INFLOW TURBULENCE; LOW LEVEL JET; MW WIND TURBINE; NEAR-NEUTRAL CONDITIONS; NEUTRAL BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; NEUTRAL CONDITIONS; STABLE BOUNDARY LAYER; SUBGRID SCALE; SURFACE COOLING; TRANSITION PERIOD; TURBINE DESIGNS; TURBINE LOADS; WIND SHEARS; WIND VELOCITY FIELD;

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BUOYANCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; FATIGUE DAMAGE; FOURIER SERIES; TIME SERIES; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 78549292113     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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