Turbulent Flow Properties Around a Staggered Wind Farm

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 141, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 349-367

  Chamorro, Leonardo P ^a   Arndt, R E A ^a   Sotiropoulos, Fotis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric boundary layer; Staggered wind farm; Turbulence; Wind tunnel experiment; Wind turbine wake

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT FLOW; BACKGROUND FLOW; CROSS-WIRE; ENGINEERING DESIGN; FLOW DISTURBANCES; FLOW PROPERTIES; FLOW STATISTICS; FUNDAMENTAL PROPERTIES; HIGH-RESOLUTION MEASUREMENTS; INTERNAL BOUNDARY LAYER; NEUTRAL CONDITIONS; PARAMETRIZATIONS; POWER OUT PUT; POWER-SPECTRA; ROTOR DIAMETER; SIMPLIFIED ANALYSIS; SMOOTH SURFACE; STAGGERED CONFIGURATION; STAGGERED WIND FARM; TURBINE LAYOUTS; TURBULENCE CHARACTERISTICS; TURBULENCE INTENSITY; TURBULENCE STATISTICS; VERTICAL VELOCITY COMPONENTS; VORTEX STRUCTURES; WIND FARM; WIND TUNNEL EXPERIMENT; WIND-TURBINE WAKE;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; FARMS; FLOW MEASUREMENT; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TROPOSPHERE; WAKES; WIND TUNNELS; WIND TURBINES;

WIND POWER;

TURBULENCE; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER; TURBULENT FLOW; VORTEX FLOW; WAKE; WIND FARM; WIND TUNNEL; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 81155159681     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-011-9649-6     Document Type: Article

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