Wind turbine siting by using mesoscale model data assimilation and computational fluid dynamics

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Zajaczkowski, Frank J ^a,b   Haupt, Sue Ellen ^a,c   Long, Kerrie ^a,c  

^a State College   (United States)

^b Applied Research Laboratory   (United States)

^c Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CFD MODELS; COMPUTER CODES; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENERGY PRODUCTIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; HIGH FIDELITY; INFLOW BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; MESOSCALE; MESOSCALE MODEL; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; PREDICTIVE CAPABILITIES; WEATHER CONDITIONS; WIND PROFILES; WIND TURBINE SITING;

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; DATA PROCESSING; FLUID DYNAMICS; LANDFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 78649890621     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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