Wake structure of a 2MW wind turbine measured using an instrumented UAV

50th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting Including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Kocer, Gulru ^a   Chokani, Ndaona ^a   Abhari, Reza S ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX TERRAINS; FAST RESPONSE; FLIGHT TRAJECTORY; FLOW FIELD MEASUREMENT; HIGH-RESOLUTION MEASUREMENTS; MEASUREMENT DATA; NEAR WAKE; NON-UNIFORMITIES; UPWARD MOTION; WAKE STRUCTURES; WIND SPEED AND DIRECTIONS; WORK EXTRACTION;

AERODYNAMICS; AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; EXHIBITIONS; FLOW FIELDS; MEASUREMENTS; WIND TURBINES;

WAKES;

EID: 84872371523     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2012-231     Document Type: Conference Paper

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