Wind tunnel study of the wake meandering downstream of a modelled wind turbine as an effect of large scale turbulent eddies

Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics

Volumn 101, Issue , 2012, Pages 24-33

  Espana G ^a   Aubrun, S ^a   Loyer, S ^a   Devinant, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

Author keywords

Meandering; Porous disk; Solid disk; Vortex shedding; Wake; Wind turbine

Indexed keywords

ACTUATOR DISKS; ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; VORTEX FLOW; VORTEX SHEDDING; WAKES; WIND TUNNELS;

HOMOGENEOUS AND ISOTROPIC; HOT WIRE ANEMOMETRY; MEANDERING; PERIODIC OSCILLATION; POROUS DISK; SOLID DISKS; SPACE-TIME CORRELATION; WIND TURBINE WAKES;

WIND TURBINES;

EID: 84855185958     PISSN: 01676105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jweia.2011.10.011     Document Type: Article

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