Wind-Tunnel Simulation of the Wake of a Large Wind Turbine in a Stable Boundary Layer. Part 1: The Boundary-Layer Simulation

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 3-21

  Hancock, Philip E ^a   Pascheke, Frauke ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atmospheric boundary layer; Stable stratification; Wind tunnel simulation

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC ROUGHNESS LENGTH; LARGE WIND TURBINES; LINEAR TEMPERATURE; OFFSHORE ENVIRONMENTS; ROUGHNESS LENGTH; STABLE BOUNDARY LAYER; STABLE STRATIFICATION; WIND-TUNNEL SIMULATION;

AERODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; BOUNDARY LAYERS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WAKES; WIND TUNNELS; WIND TURBINES;

INLET FLOW;

AERODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYER; NUMERICAL MODEL; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STRATIFICATION; STRATIFIED FLOW; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WIND TUNNEL; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 84896729542     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-013-9886-y     Document Type: Article

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