A simple atmospheric boundary layer model applied to large eddy simulations of wind turbine wakes

Wind Energy

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 657-669

  Troldborg, Niels ^a   Sørensen, Jens N ^a   Mikkelsen, Robert ^a   Sørensen, Niels N ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

actuator line method; atmospheric boundary layer model; LES, wakes

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; WAKES; WIND TURBINES;

FIELD MEASUREMENT; IMMERSED BOUNDARY; LINE METHODS; SIMPLE MODELING; VOLUME FORCE; WAKE STUDIES; WIND SHEARS; WIND TURBINE WAKES;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER;

BOUNDARY LAYER; EDDY; WAKE; WIND SHEAR; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 84895922995     PISSN: 10954244     EISSN: 10991824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/we.1608     Document Type: Article

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