Harvesting high altitude wind energy for power production: The concept based on Magnus' effect

Applied Energy

Volumn 101, Issue , 2013, Pages 151-160

  Perković, Luka ^a   Silva, Pedro ^b   Ban, Marko ^a   Kranjčević, Nenad ^a   Duić, Neven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b Omnidea Lda   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; High altitude wind energy; Magnus' effect; Renewable energy sources

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ENERGY TRANSFER; KINETICS; NATURAL RESOURCES; WIND POWER;

CONCEPT-BASED; GROUND STATIONS; MAGNUS' EFFECT; MECHANICAL ENERGIES; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; POWER PRODUCTION; PROCESS DYNAMICS; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE; ROTATING CYLINDERS; WIND SPEED;

AERODYNAMICS;

AERODYNAMICS; ALTITUDE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; KINETIC ENERGY; POWER GENERATION; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SOLAR POWER; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WIND POWER; WIND VELOCITY;

ACCIPITRIDAE;

EID: 84869876729     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2012.06.061     Document Type: Article

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