Turbulent flow and scalar transport through and over aligned and staggered wind farms

Journal of Turbulence

Volumn 13, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-36

  Markfort, Corey D ^a   Zhang, Wei ^a   Porté Agel, Fernando ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Atmospheric boundary layer (ABL); Canopy turbulence; Roughness transition; Scalar transport; Wake turbine interaction; Wind farm layout; Wind tunnel experiment

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; CARBON DIOXIDE; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; WAKES; MOMENTUM; WIND POWER;

CANOPY TURBULENCE; SCALAR TRANSPORT; WAKE-TURBINE INTERACTION; WIND FARM LAYOUTS; WIND TUNNEL EXPERIMENT;

WIND POWER; ELECTRIC UTILITIES;

ABSORPTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE MODELING; HEAT FLUX; KINETIC ENERGY; MOISTURE FLUX; TURBULENT FLOW; WIND FARM; CANOPY; ENERGY FLUX; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TURBULENCE; WAKE; WIND DIRECTION; WIND TUNNEL;

EID: 84871141227     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14685248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14685248.2012.709635     Document Type: Article

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