Turbulent flow inside and above awind farm: A wind-tunnel study

Energies

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1916-1936

  Chamorro, Leonardo P ^a   Porté Agel, Fernando ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; BOUNDARY LAYERS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; FLOW PATTERNS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW; WIND POWER; WIND TUNNELS; WIND TURBINES;

BOUNDARY LAYER EFFECTS; INTERNAL BOUNDARY LAYER; SURFACE ROUGHNESS LENGTH; TURBULENCE INTENSITY; VERTICAL VELOCITY COMPONENTS; WIND FARM; WIND TUNNEL EXPERIMENT; WIND TURBINE WAKES;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 82755187705     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/en4111916     Document Type: Article

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