The interaction of helical tip and root vortices in a wind turbine wake

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Sherry, Michael ^a,c   Nemes, András ^a   Lo Jacono, David ^a,b   Blackburn, Hugh M ^a   Sheridan, John ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUCTANCE; MERGING; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WAKES; WIND TURBINES;

BLADE AERODYNAMIC; HELICAL SYMMETRY; LINEAR STABILITY THEORY; MUTUAL INDUCTANCE; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRIES; VORTEX EVOLUTIONS; VORTEX PROPERTIES; WIND TURBINE WAKES;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 84888809710     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: 10897666     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4824734     Document Type: Article

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