High-performance computing of wind turbine aerodynamics using isogeometric analysis

Computers and Fluids

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 93-100

  Hsu, Ming Chen ^a   Akkerman, Ido ^a,b   Bazilevs, Yuri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b US ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

High performance computing; Isogeometric analysis; NURBS; Parallel scalability; RBVMS; Turbulence modeling; Wind turbine

Indexed keywords

HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; ISOGEOMETRIC ANALYSIS; NURBS; PARALLEL SCALABILITY; RBVMS; TURBULENCE MODELING;

AERODYNAMICS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; SCALABILITY; TURBULENT FLOW; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

FLOW SIMULATION;

EID: 79960894308     PISSN: 00457930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compfluid.2011.05.002     Document Type: Article

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