Wind farm wake simulations in OpenFOAM

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Stovall, Timothy ^a   Pawlas, Gary ^a   Moriarty, Patrick ^b  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATOR DISKS; ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; WIND POWER;

ACTUATOR DISC; COST OF ENERGIES; CURRENT MODELING; LOWER ORDER MODELS; NEUTRALLY STRATIFIED; POWER PRODUCTION; RANS SIMULATION; REYNOLDS-AVERAGED NAVIER STOKES SOLVERS;

WAKES;

EID: 78649884816     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2010-825     Document Type: Conference Paper

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