Near-wake flow structure downwind of a wind turbine in a turbulent boundary layer

Experiments in Fluids

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1219-1235

  Zhang, Wei ^a   Markfort, Corey D ^a   Porté Agel, Fernando ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D FLOW; COUPLED VORTICES; FATIGUE LOADS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HUB HEIGHT; LAYER FLOW; LIMITED INFORMATION; MEAN FLOW; NEAR WAKE; NEAR-WAKE FLOW STRUCTURE; NEUTRAL BOUNDARY LAYER; NEUTRAL BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRIES; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; ROTOR DIAMETER; STRONG TURBULENCE; STRONG WINDS; SURFACE LAYERS; TIP VORTEX; TURBINE MODELS; TURBULENCE LEVEL; TURBULENCE STRUCTURES; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYERS; VALIDATION OF NUMERICAL MODEL; VORTEX BEHAVIOR; WIND FARM; WIND TUNNEL EXPERIMENT; WIND TURBINE POWER; WIND TURBINE WAKES;

AERODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; FLOW CONTROL; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VORTEX FLOW; WAKES; WIND POWER; WIND TUNNELS;

WIND TURBINES;

EID: 84861663671     PISSN: 07234864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00348-011-1250-8     Document Type: Article

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