Large eddy simulation study of scalar transport in fully developed wind-turbine array boundary layers

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Calaf, Marc ^a   Parlange, Marc B ^a   Meneveau, Charles ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

ALTERNATIVE SOURCE; BOTTOM SURFACES; FRICTION VELOCITY; GROUND SURFACES; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; SCALAR TRANSPORT; THRUST COEFFICIENTS; TWO-WAY INTERACTION;

LARGE EDDY SIMULATION;

EID: 84855281912     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3663376     Document Type: Article

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