RANS computations of MEXICO rotor in uniform and yawed inflow

Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Tsalicoglou, Christina ^a   Jafari, Samira ^a   Chokani, Ndaona ^a   Abhari, Reza S ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EFFORT; CONTROLLED CONDITIONS; HORIZONTAL-AXIS WIND TURBINES; MODEL EXPERIMENTS; NON-UNIFORM FLOWS; REYNOLDS-AVERAGED NAVIER-STOKES SIMULATIONS; TIP SPEED RATIO; WIND TURBINE MODELING;

ELECTRIC UTILITIES; EXPERIMENTS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84888173359     PISSN: 07424795     EISSN: 15288919     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4025362     Document Type: Article

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