Mesh and load distribution requirements for actuator line CFD simulations

Wind Energy

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1183-1196

  Shives, Michael ^a   Crawford, Curran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

actuator disk; actuator line; CFD; wind turbines

Indexed keywords

ACTUATOR DISKS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FUNCTIONS; MESH GENERATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; WIND TURBINES; WINGS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS METHODS; FORCE DISTRIBUTIONS; GAUSSIAN SMOOTHING; LIFTING LINE THEORY; LOAD DISTRIBUTIONS; PHYSICAL LOCATIONS; SOURCE DISTRIBUTION; SPANWISE CIRCULATION DISTRIBUTION;

TURBINE COMPONENTS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; MOMENTUM; SIMULATION; SMOOTHING; TURBINE; WING;

EID: 84888341660     PISSN: 10954244     EISSN: 10991824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/we.1546     Document Type: Article

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