Wind-Turbine Wakes in a Convective Boundary Layer: A Wind-Tunnel Study

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 146, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 161-179

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Atmospheric boundary layer; Convective boundary layer; Thermal stability; Wind tunnel experiment; Wind turbine wakes

Indexed keywords

ANEMOMETERS; ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; HEAT FLUX; MOMENTUM; STABILITY; STEREO IMAGE PROCESSING; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VORTEX FLOW; WAKES; WIND; WIND POWER; WIND TUNNELS; WIND TURBINES; WIRE;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMAL STABILITIES; BULK RICHARDSON NUMBER; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYERS; NEUTRAL BOUNDARY LAYER; STEREOSCOPIC PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL TURBULENT FLOW; WIND TUNNEL EXPERIMENT; WIND TURBINE WAKES;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

AIRFLOW; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; COOLING; POWER LAW; RICHARDSON NUMBER; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER; WIND FARM; WIND TUNNEL; WIND TURBINE; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84872814131     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-012-9751-4     Document Type: Article

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