Predicting wind turbine blade loads using vorticity transport and RANS methodologies

European Wind Energy Conference and Exhibition 2009, EWEC 2009

Volumn 3, Issue , 2009, Pages 1681-1698

  Fletcher, Timothy M ^a   Brown, Richard E ^a   Kim, Dahye ^b   Kwon, Oh Joon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC PERFORMANCE; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; DURING PHASE; HORIZONTAL AXIS WIND TURBINES; INDUCED VELOCITY; NUMERICAL DATA; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; REYNOLDS AVERAGED NAVIER-STOKES EQUATION; REYNOLDS-AVERAGED NAVIER-STOKES; SEMI-EMPIRICAL; STALL DELAY; UNSTEADY AERODYNAMICS; VORTICITY TRANSPORT EQUATIONS; VORTICITY TRANSPORT MODEL; WIND CONDITIONS; WIND TURBINE BLADES;

AERODYNAMICS; EXHIBITIONS; FORECASTING; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; VORTEX FLOW; VORTICITY; WAKES; WIND POWER;

WIND TURBINES;

EID: 84870040342     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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