Guidelines for volume force distributions within actuator line modeling of wind turbines on large-eddy simulation-type grids

Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 136, Issue 3, 2014, 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

A1. LARGEEDDY SIMULATIONS (LES); BLADE DESIGN; LINE PARAMETERS; LOW ASPECT RATIO; NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY; SPANWISE DISTRIBUTION; WAKE INTERACTIONS; WIND TURBINE BLADES;

ASPECT RATIO; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

ACTUATORS;

EID: 84892606972     PISSN: 01996231     EISSN: 15288986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4026252     Document Type: Article

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