Simulation of flow past wind turbines located on a hill by a hybrid Actuator/Navier-Stokes method

European Wind Energy Conference and Exhibition 2009, EWEC 2009

Volumn 7, Issue , 2009, Pages 4373-4382

  Shen, Wen Zhong ^a   Sørensen, Jens Nørkær ^a   Mikkelsen, Robert ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATOR LINE TECHNIQUE; COMPLEX FLOW; HYBRID ACTUATOR; INFLOW TURBULENCE; NAVIER-STOKES SOLVER; STRUCTURAL MESHES; WIND SPEED;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; EXHIBITIONS; WIND EFFECTS; WIND POWER;

WIND TURBINES;

EID: 84870030290     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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