Performance and safety of rooftop wind turbines: Use of CFD to gain insight into inflow conditions

Renewable Energy

Volumn 67, Issue , 2014, Pages 242-251

  Tabrizi, Amir Bashirzadeh ^a   Whale, Jonathan ^a   Lyons, Thomas ^a   Urmee, Tania ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Built environment; CFD; Small wind turbines; Wind atlas software

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; BUILDINGS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ENERGY RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; INVESTMENTS; ROOFS; WIND POWER;

ATLAS SOFTWARE; BUILT ENVIRONMENT; INTERNATIONAL ENERGY AGENCY; RECOMMENDED PRACTICE; SMALL WIND TURBINE; WIND CHARACTERISTICS; WIND ENERGY RESOURCE ASSESSMENTS; WIND RESOURCE ASSESSMENT;

WIND TURBINES;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; INFLOW; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; SOFTWARE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; URBAN AREA; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINE; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84897393512     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2013.11.033     Document Type: Article

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