Accuracy of state-of-the-art actuator-line modeling for wind turbine wakes

51st AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Jha, Pankaj K ^a   Churchfield, Matthew J ^b   Moriarty, Patrick J ^b   Schmitz, Sven ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT ACTUATORS; EXPERIMENTAL DATUM; GAUSSIAN WIDTH; NREL PHASE VI; PARKED CONDITIONS; PERFORMANCE CODE; TANGENTIAL FORCE COEFFICIENT; WIND TURBINE WAKES;

ACTUATORS; AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW FIELDS; PLANFORMS;

LOADING;

EID: 84881457565     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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