A comparison of actuator disk and actuator line wind turbine models and best practices for their use

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Martínez, Luis A ^a   Leonardi, Stefano ^a   Churchfield, Matthew J ^b   Moriarty, Patrick J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLADE ELEMENT MOMENTUM THEORY; BLADE TIP; BODY FORCES; GAUSSIANS; GRID RESOLUTION; LINE MODELS; POWER PRODUCTION; PROJECTION FUNCTION; TIP LOSS CORRECTION; TIP VORTEX; TURBINE MODELS; WAKE VELOCITY; WIND TURBINE POWER;

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; EXHIBITIONS; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; WAKES; WIND TURBINES;

ACTUATOR DISKS;

EID: 84873847284     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2012-900     Document Type: Conference Paper

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