Sensitivity to inlet conditions of wind resource assessment over complex terrain using three CFD solvers and wind tunnel data

European Wind Energy Conference and Exhibition 2011, EWEC 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 200-204

  Munoz Esparza D ^a   Conan, B ^a   Croonenborghs, E ^b   Parente, A ^a   Van Beeck, J ^a   Sanz, J ^c  

^a VON KARMAN INSTITUTE FOR FLUID DYNAMICS   (Belgium)

^b MARINTEK ^*  (Norway)

^c CENER   (Spain)

Author keywords

Complex terrain; Inlet conditions; RANS q solvers; Wind tunnel inter comparison

Indexed keywords

CFD CODES; CFD SOLVER; COMPLEX TERRAINS; FIELD MEASUREMENT; INLET CONDITIONS; INTERCOMPARISONS; MICRO-SCALES; OPEN SOURCES; OPEN-SOURCE CODE; OPENFOAM; REALISTIC CONDITIONS; SCALED MODELS; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY; WIND FARM; WIND RESOURCE ASSESSMENT; WIND TUNNEL EXPERIMENT; WIND-TUNNEL DATA;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; EXHIBITIONS; INTAKE SYSTEMS; KINETICS; LANDFORMS; WIND POWER;

WIND TUNNELS;

EID: 84862201801     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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