Effect of steady and transient wind shear on the wake structure and performance of a horizontal axis wind turbine rotor

Wind Energy

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-17

  Sezer Uzol, Nilay ^a,b   Uzol, Oguz ^b  

^a TOBB UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Turkey)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

freewake; gust; HAWT; horizontal axis wind turbine; windshear

Indexed keywords

SHEAR FLOW; VORTEX FLOW; WAKES; WIND TURBINES;

FREEWAKE; GUST; HAWT; HORIZONTAL AXIS WIND TURBINES; WIND SHEARS;

TURBINE COMPONENTS;

AMPLITUDE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW MEASUREMENT; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRESSURE FIELD; WAKE; WIND SHEAR; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 84872896292     PISSN: 10954244     EISSN: 10991824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/we.514     Document Type: Article

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