A comparison of wind turbine load statistics for inflow turbulence fields based on conventional spectral methods and large eddy simulation

48th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting Including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

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

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; SPECTROSCOPY; STATISTICS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TURBULENCE; VELOCITY; WIND TURBINES;

ATMOSPHERIC STABILITY; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL RESOLUTIONS; STABLE BOUNDARY LAYER; STOCHASTIC APPROACH; STOCHASTIC SIMULATIONS; TEMPORAL FILTERING; TIME FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; WIND TURBINE LOADS;

FATIGUE OF MATERIALS;

EID: 78649813990     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2010-829     Document Type: Conference Paper

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