Stability analysis of the tip vortices of a wind turbine

Wind Energy

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 705-715

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

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b GOTLAND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Actuator line; CFD; EllipSys3D; Harmonic perturbations; Horns Rev; wake length; wakes; Wind turbines

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; AERODYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW CONTROL; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; STABILITY; WAKES; WIND TUNNELS; WIND TURBINES;

CRITICAL FREQUENCIES; ELLIPSYS3D; HARMONIC PERTURBATIONS; HORNS REV; SPECIFIC FREQUENCIES; STABILITY PROPERTIES; TURBULENCE INTENSITY; WIND TURBINE ROTORS;

VORTEX FLOW;

LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL MODEL; TURBULENCE; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 78649637517     PISSN: 10954244     EISSN: 10991824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/we.391     Document Type: Article

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