Computational study and modeling of turbine spacing effects infinite aligned wind farms

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Yang, Xiaolei ^a   Kang, Seokkoo ^a   Sotiropoulos, Fotis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATOR DISKS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; TURBULENCE; WAKES; WIND POWER;

COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; DIFFERENT EFFECTS; POWER EXTRACTION; PREDICTIVE CAPABILITIES; ROUGHNESS HEIGHT; TURBULENCE INTENSITY; WIND TURBINE ROTORS; WIND TURBINE WAKES;

WIND TURBINES;

EID: 84872422530     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4767727     Document Type: Article

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