Dynamic wind loads and wake characteristics of a wind turbine model in an atmospheric boundary layer wind

Experiments in Fluids

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1277-1294

  Hu, Hui ^a   Yang, Zifeng ^a,b   Sarkar, Partha ^a  

^a Iowa State University of Science and Technology   (United States)

^b Wright State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC FORCES; BLADE ROOTS; DIGITAL PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; DYNAMIC WINDS; ENSEMBLE-AVERAGED; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FLOW FIELD MEASUREMENT; FLOW QUANTITIES; HIGH RESOLUTION; HORIZONTAL AXIS WIND TURBINES; MEAN VELOCITIES; MOMENT COEFFICIENT; NEAR WAKE; OPTIMAL DESIGN; PIV MEASUREMENTS; REYNOLDS STRESS; REYNOLDS STRESS DISTRIBUTION; ROTATING TURBINES; SENSOR UNITS; TIP VORTEX; TURBINE BLADE; TURBINE MODELS; TURBULENCE KINETIC ENERGY; TURBULENT VORTEX FLOW; UNSTEADY VORTICES; WAKE FLOWS;

AERODYNAMIC LOADS; AERODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; BENDING MOMENTS; FLOW FIELDS; KINETIC ENERGY; LOADS (FORCES); REYNOLDS NUMBER; STRESS CONCENTRATION; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; VORTEX FLOW; WAKES; WIND STRESS; WIND TURBINES;

DYNAMIC MODELS;

EID: 84861692964     PISSN: 07234864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00348-011-1253-5     Document Type: Article

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