Interaction between a wind turbine array and a turbulent boundary layer

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Lebrón, José R ^a   Castillo, Luciano ^a   Cal, Raúl B ^b   Kang, Hyung Suk ^c   Meneveau, Charles ^c  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Portland State University   (United States)

^c Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; SHEAR FLOW; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WIND POWER; WIND TUNNELS; WIND TURBINES;

CROSS-STREAM PLANES; HOT WIRE ANEMOMETRY; INDUCTION FACTORS; INFLOW CONDITIONS; MECHANICAL POWER; STEREO PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; TURBINE MODELS; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYERS;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 78649880941     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2010-824     Document Type: Conference Paper

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