Seven-sensor fast-response probe for full-scale wind turbine flowfield measurements

Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power

Volumn 133, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Mansour, M ^a   Kocer, G ^a   Lenherr, C ^a   Chokani, N ^a   Abhari, R S ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS UAV; COMPLEX TERRAINS; COST EFFECTIVE; ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES; FATIGUE LIFE; FLOW FIELD MEASUREMENT; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; LIFT COEFFICIENT; MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; MEASUREMENT TOOLS; PITCH BLADES; ROTOR DIAMETER; SITE ASSESSMENT; TIME VARYING; TIME-AVERAGED; TIME-AVERAGED VELOCITY; UNINHABITED AERIAL VEHICLE; VELOCITY FLUCTUATIONS; VELOCITY PROFILES; WIND PROFILES;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; EXTRAPOLATION; PROBES; SENSORS; SHEAR FLOW; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; SURVEYS; TROPOSPHERE; VELOCITY; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

MEASUREMENTS;

EID: 79953681651     PISSN: 07424795     EISSN: 15288919     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4002781     Document Type: Article

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