Simulation of Turbulent Flow Inside and Above Wind Farms: Model Validation and Layout Effects

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 146, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 181-205

  Wu, Yu Ting ^a   Porté Agel, Fernando ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Actuator disk model; Blade element momentum theory; Effective roughness; Large eddy simulation; Wind farm wakes

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; DRAG; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; MOMENTUM; TURBULENCE; WAKES; WIND POWER; WIND TUNNELS; WIND TURBINES;

BLADE ELEMENT MOMENTUM THEORY; BOUNDARY LAYER WIND TUNNEL; INTERNAL BOUNDARY LAYER; SCALE-DEPENDENT DYNAMICS; STAGGERED CONFIGURATION; TURBULENCE INTENSITY LEVEL; TURBULENCE MEASUREMENTS; WIND FARM;

ACTUATOR DISKS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; MODEL VALIDATION; ROUGHNESS; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY PROFILE; WIND FARM; WIND TURBINE; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84872798398     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-012-9757-y     Document Type: Article

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