Optimal turbine spacing in fully developed wind farm boundary layers

Wind Energy

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 305-317

  Meyers, Johan ^a   Meneveau, Charles ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

large eddy simulation; optimal wind turbine spacing; wind energy; wind farm

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; WIND TURBINES;

ASYMPTOTIC LIMITS; COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; EQUILIBRIUM LAYERS; LOADING FACTORS; MEAN VELOCITIES; OPTIMAL WIND TURBINE SPACING; ROUGHNESS HEIGHT; WIND FARM;

WIND POWER;

BOUNDARY LAYER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; LAND SURFACE; MAGNITUDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 84859102492     PISSN: 10954244     EISSN: 10991824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/we.469     Document Type: Article

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