Wind-Tunnel Simulation of the Wake of a Large Wind Turbine in a Stable Boundary Layer: Part 2, the Wake Flow

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 23-37

  Hancock, Philip E ^a   Pascheke, Frauke ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Stable atmospheric boundary layer; Wind tunnel experiment; Wind turbine wakes

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER TURBULENCE; LARGE WIND TURBINES; STABLE ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; STABLE BOUNDARY LAYER; VERTICAL FLUCTUATIONS; VERTICAL HEAT FLUXES; WIND TUNNEL EXPERIMENT; WIND-TUNNEL SIMULATION;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; HEAT FLUX; REYNOLDS NUMBER; WIND TUNNELS; WIND TURBINES;

WAKES;

BOUNDARY LAYER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT FLUX; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; MIXING; STRATIFIED FLOW; TURBULENCE; WAKE; WIND TUNNEL; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 84896710311     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-013-9887-x     Document Type: Article

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